October 6
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October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 210 BC - Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh of Egypt (d. 181 BC)
- 1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
- 1459 – Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)
- 1510 – Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyr (d. 1555)
- 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
- 1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
- 1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
- 1767 – Henri Christophe, King of Haiti (d. 1820)
- 1768 - Samuel C. Crafts, Governor of Vermont (d. 1853)
- 1769 – Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, British commander during the War of 1812 (d. 1812)
- 1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
- 1783 - Francois Magendie, French physician (d. 1855)
- 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
- 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
- 1808 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
- 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
- 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
- 1842 - Felice Cavallotti, Italian politician (d. 1898)
- 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
- 1849 - Basil Zaharoff, Greek weapons dealer (d. 1936)
- 1868 – George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)
- 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
- 1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
- 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
- 1886 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
- 1889 - Zalman Shazar, President of Israel (d. 1974)
- 1891 - David Sholtz, Governor of Florida (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Jackie Saunders, American silent movie actress (d. 1954)
- 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (d. 1995)
- 1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- 1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
- 1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
- 1927 - Emmanuel III Delly, Roman Catholic cardinal
- 1929 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
- 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1931 – Riccardo Gacconi, Italian physicist
- 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian politician
- 1937 – Mario Capecchi, Italian molecular geneticist
- 1939 - Melvyn Bragg, British broadcaster
- 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- 1944 - Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1945 - Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
- 1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, diver
- 1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- 1949 - Jim Gilmore, former Governor of West Virginia
- 1949 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban-born performer (d. 2010)
- 1950 – David Brin, science fiction writer
- 1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
- 1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
- 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
- 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
- 1967 - Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
- 1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
- 1970 - Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
- 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
- 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
- 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
- 1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
- 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1978 – Ricky Hatton, British boxer
- 1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
- 1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
- 1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
- 1986 - Mohammed Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
- 1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
- 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
- 2002 - Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
Deaths [change]
- 404 - Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress
- 1014 - Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
- 1413 - Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
- 1661 - Guru Har Rai, 7th Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
- 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
- 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (b. 1684)
- 1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
- 1829 - Pierre Debigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 1873 – Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
- 1883 - Duc Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1852)
- 1892 – Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate (b. 1809)
- 1912 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman (b. 1829)
- 1940 - Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois (b. 1878)
- 1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1884)
- 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
- 1956 - Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor of Nebraska (b. 1881)
- 1962 – Tod Browning, American movie director (b. 1880)
- 1974 - Luther H. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1898)
- 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
- 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
- 1981 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1918)
- 1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1988 – Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982, suicide (b. 1949)
- 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905)
- 1995 - Benoit Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
- 1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentine movie director (b. 1940)
- 2011 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
- 2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
Events [change]
- 105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
- 891 – Formosus becomes Pope.
- 1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
- 1683 - German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1762 - Seven Years' War: Conclusion of the Battle of Manila between British and Spanish forces, resulting in British occupation of the city until the end of the war.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: General Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of the Continental Army defenses on the Hudson River in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
- 1854 - The Great Fire of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead begins shortly after midnight, killing 53 people.
- 1876 - The American Library Association is founded.
- 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first movie.
- 1889 – Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschneller make the first ascent of Kilimanjaro.
- 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
- 1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1910 - Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time.
- 1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
- 1923 - The Great Powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- 1939 - World War II: The German invasion of Poland is completed.
- 1955 – A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
- 1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
- 1973 – The Yom Kippur War begins, as Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel.
- 1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.
- 1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
- 1978 – Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married. Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits the White House.
- 1981 – President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is assassinated, while inspecting a military parade.
- 1987 – Fiji becomes a Republic.
- 1993 - Michael Jordan surprisingly announces his retirement from basketball.
- 1995 – 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
- 1998 – Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
- 2000 – Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia.
- 2002 – French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- 2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden after being elected on September 17.
- 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered round-the-world journey.
- 2008 - Then-Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde announces that his country is close to becoming bankrupt.
Observances [change]
- Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
