6th
October, on this day
105 BC - Battle
of Arausio: The Cimbri
inflict the heaviest 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
begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1536 William
Tyndale, an English religious reformer and bible translator, is
burnt at the stake in Brussels as a heretic
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,
signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1683 William
Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania,
marking the first German people to immigrate to America
1762 Seven
Years' War: conclusion of the Battle
of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British
occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1769 British explorer Captain
James Cook, on board his ship the 'Endeavour' discovers New Zealand
1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last
battle of the Revolutionary War
1789 Louis
XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by
the Parisian women on 5 October
1829 Stephenson's 'Rocket' wins the trials to find a locomotive to
run on the railway between Lliverpool and Manchester
1849 The execution of the 13
Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 The Great
fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight,
leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1857 American
Chess Association formed; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 1st train robbery in US
1883 The Orient
Express completes its first run from Paris to Constantinople (
now Istanbul) in less than 78 hours
1884 The Naval
War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport,
Rhode Island.
1889 Thomas
Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 Mormon
Church outlaws polygamy
1895 In Britain, conductor Sir
Henry Wood institutes the Promenade Concerts-known worldwide as
'The Proms' - at the Queen's Hall in London
1903 Official opening of Manchester
University
1903 The High
Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1906 The Majlis
of Iran convened for the first time. 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia
and Herzegovina following an agreement with Russia
1919 Norway introduces the prohibition of alcohol
1922 The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar
1927 World premiere of the Warner Brothers film 'The Jazz
Singer' - starring Al
Jolson in the cinema's first full length 'talkie' - a film which
includes sound as well as vision. Jolson's songs include 'Toot Toot
Tootsie'; 'Goodbye' and 'Mammy'
1928 General Chiang
Kai-shek becomes President of China
1938 The Grand Fascist Council in Italy passes a variety of anti-Jewish
laws to exclude Jews from public activities and cede property to the
state. The legislation is condemned by Pope Pius XI
1939 Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1939 Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and
France
1949 Britain and America end the 'Berlin Airlift' -the months of flying
supplies to West Berlin after it was blockaded by the USSR
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo
Rose) sentenced to 10 years and $10,000 fine
1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1955 A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming,
killing 66 people
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts
Moon
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy
Garland Show"
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1966 LSD
is declared illegal in the United States.
1967 Haight-Ashbury
hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
1968 British drivers take the first three places in the US Grand Prix::
Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and John Surtees
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 The
Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying
the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev
Line and starting the Yom
Kippur War
1976 Cubana
Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed
by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly
after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board
were killed.
1976 New Premier Hua
Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang
of Four and associates and ends the Cultural
Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1976 Massacre
of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand
to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom
by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces,
triggering the return of the military to government.
1977 In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV
militants and sympathisers, and one MCPV sympathiser is killed.
1977 The first prototype of the
MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1976 John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in
the world and cycling 50,600 miles
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern
Europe"
1979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds
1'9"
1979 Pope
John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House
1981 Egypt's President Anwar
Sadat is assassinated by Muslim extremists
1985 In Britain, a Metropolitan policeman, PC
Keith Blakelock is hacked to death by up to 40 rioters on the
Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham, North London
1987 Fiji
becomes a republic.
1991 American actress Elizabeth Taylor marries for the 8th time. This
time to builder Larry
Fortensky
1995
51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from
the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1997 Britain's first astronaut, Michael
Foale, returns safely to earth aboard the space shuttle 'Atlantis'
after four and a half months on 'MIR', the Russian space station
2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan
Miloševic resigns.
2002 The French oil tanker Limburg
is bombed off Yemen.
2007 Jason
Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the
globe.
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6th
October 2005
US
Senate backs detainee rights
Israel
bans use of human shields
US
show broadcasts from Windsor
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6th
October 2006
Georgians
deported as row deepens
Miners
killed in Bolivia dispute
Vatican
to review state of limbo
6th October
2007
Convoy
bombed in Afghan capital
Musharraf
wins presidential vote
Global
rallies to pressure Burma
6th October
2008
Financial
crisis pummels stocks
Suicide
blast hits Sri Lanka town
Ten
dead in California crash
6th October
2009
'Nine
dead' in Iraq market blast
Clashes
raise Jerusalem tensions
Google
targeted in e-mail scam
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Birthdates
which occurred on 6th October:
1820 Jenny Lind
Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz)
1824 Henry Chadwick baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1831 Richard Dedekind mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1846 George Westinghouse responsible for alternating current in US
1849 Sir Basil Zaharoff arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge US, politician/author (Progressive)
1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast 1st program of voice &
music
1882 Karol Szymanowski Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1887 Le Corbusier Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme)
1887 Mart¡n Luis Guzm n Mexico, novelist (The Eagle & the
Serpent)
1888 Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
1895 Caroline Gordon Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1897 Jerome Cowan NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
19-- Mike Tylo actor (Guiding Light)
19-- Tony Cavazo rocker (Hurricane-I'm On To You)
1905 Helen N Moody tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906 Janet Gaynor Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
1909 Carol Lombard actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1925 Shana Alexander NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
1926 Alan Copeland LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1927 Paul Badura-Skoda Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1930 Hafez al Assad president (Syria)
1936 Anna Quayle actress (Mistress Pamela)
1940 Ellen Travolta Englewood NJ, actress (Louise-Joanie Loves Chachi)
1942 Britt Ekland Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 Fred Travalena NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
1943 Michael Durrell Brooklyn NY, actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs)
1946 Gary Gentry baseball player (NY Mets)
1947 Klaus Dibiasi Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1960 Jeffrey Trachta Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
1960 Richard Jobson British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
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Deaths which occurred
on October 6th:
1891 Charles Stewart Parnell leader of the Irish party, dies
1951 Henry Gurney British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated
1956 Walter Herlihy announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1969 Walter Hagen PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1975 Henry Calvin actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1981 Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
1983 Terence Cooke NY's Cardinal, dies at 62
1989 Bette Davis dies at 81
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