October 6: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.

Events

• 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
• 68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
• 891 - Formosus becomes Pope.
• 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
• 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
• 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
• 1922 - The great powers of the first world war 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 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
• 1945 - Baseball: Bill Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
• 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 Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.
• 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Castrist militants, 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.
• 1976 - Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom are massacred by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
• 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers were attacked by fascists while putting up posters. Miquel Grau, a 20-year old MCPV sympathizer, is killed.
• 1978 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.
• 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
• 1993 - Michael Jordan makes his first retirement from the NBA.
• 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 Milošević resigns.
• 2001 - The then most-attended ice hockey game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, before a crowd of 74,554. In 2004, that record was shattered in a historic outdoor regular season match in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between the Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens.
• 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
• 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.

1289 to 1899

• 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
• 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
• 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
• 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
• 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
• 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
• 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
• 1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)
• 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
• 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
• 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
• 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
• 1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
• 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
• 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
• 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
• 1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
• 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
• 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)

1900 to 1999

• 1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
• 1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (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)
• 1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
• 1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist
• 1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
• 1925 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
• 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
• 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
• 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
• 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman
• 1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
• 1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor
• 1945 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
• 1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
• 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer
• 1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician
• 1950 - David Brin, American author
• 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
• 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
• 1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
• 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player
• 1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
• 1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
• 1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian
• 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
• 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

• 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
• 1536 - William Tyndale, English Bible translator (burned at the stake)
• 1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
• 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
• 1644 - Elisabeth of France, queen of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
• 1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer
• 1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
• 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
• 1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
• 1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
• 1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
• 1946 - Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (b. 1935)
• 1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
• 1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Germn-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
• 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
• 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)
• 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
• 1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
• 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)

• RC Saints - Saint Bruno
• Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Egypt - National Day or Victory Day; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973
• U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987; Mad Hatter Day
• Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)
• Ireland - Ivy Day, formerly honoring the Irish god Padraig Pearse, commemmorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.

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