October 6
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in
Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.
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Events
\n*105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus\n*891 - Formosus becomes Pope\n*1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence\n*1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture\n*1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina\n*1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie\n*1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China\n*1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people\n*1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States \n*1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins\n*1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated\n*1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he dies on October 12).\n*2000 - Slobodan Milosevic resigns\n*2002 - French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Births
\n*1459 - Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)\n*1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France\n*1820 - Jenny Lind, singer\n*1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)\n*1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor (d. 1914)\n*1868 - George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)\n*1882 - Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)\n*1886 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)\n*1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)\n*1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)\n*1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)\n*1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)\n*1910 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002) \n*1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)\n*1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)\n*1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player\n*1935 - Bruno Sammartino, "The Italian Strongman"\n*1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician\n*1950 - David Brin, science fiction author\n*1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)\n* 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player\n* 1993 - Demi Garcia, young Tejano singer
Deaths
\n*1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate\n*1962 - Tod Browning, American film director\n*1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)\n*1985 - Murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Riot, London \n* 1985 - Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)\n*1988 - Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982\n*1989 - Bette Davis, American actress\n*1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor\n*1993 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer\n*1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer\n*2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Holidays and Observances
\n* German-American Day (U.S observance, since 1987)
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