October 6

For its use in Egypt, see 6th of October (disambiguation).

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.

Events

• 105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
• 69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
• 68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
• 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
• 1582 – Because of 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, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
• 1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people 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.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
• 1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
• 1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
• 1854 – England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
• 1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
• 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 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 (7 times in total).
• 1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
• 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
• 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
• 1945 – Baseball: Billy 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).
• 1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
• 1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are 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 sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
• 1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
• 1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• 1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
• 1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
• 2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
• 2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
• 2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
• 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
• 2009 – Hilary Mantel is awarded her first Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall.

Births

• 1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
• 1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
• 1510 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• 1510 – Rowland Taylor, English martyr (d. 1555)
• 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (d. 1610)
• 1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (d. 1624)
• 1591 – Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer (d. 1638)
• 1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
• 1716 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician (d. 1771)
• 1732 – John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded Broadwood and Sons (d. 1812)
• 1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
• 1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813)
• 1767 – Henri Christophe, Haitian king (d. 1820)
• 1769 – Isaac Brock, English army officer (d. 1812)
• 1773 – Louis Philippe I, French king (d. 1850)
• 1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888)
• 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 soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910)
• 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
• 1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-Canadian inventor, invented Radiotelephony (d. 1932)
• 1874 – Frank G. Allen, American politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1941)
• 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
• 1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
• 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)
• 1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
• 1890 – Jan Grijseels, Dutch runner (d. 1961)
• 1892 – Jackie Saunders, American actress (d. 1954)
• 1895 – Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist (d. 1991)
• 1900 – Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
• 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)
• 1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Perkins Bass, American politician (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Joan Littlewood, English director (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist (d. 1977)
• 1918 – Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
• 1918 – André Pilette, Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1920 – John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, English judge (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist
• 1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Bill King, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
• 1931 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American strongman and wrestler
• 1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
• 1938 – Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder and actor (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Jack Cullen, American baseball player
• 1939 – John J. LaFalce, American politician
• 1940 – Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
• 1940 – Ellen Travolta, American actress
• 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
• 1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor
• 1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
• 1944 – Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
• 1944 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1977)
• 1945 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1946 – Millie, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
• 1946 – Tony Greig, South African–English cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
• 1946 – Eddie Villanueva, Filipino religious leader and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
• 1947 – Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1948 – Gerry Adams, Irish politician
• 1948 – Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer
• 1949 – Leslie Moonves, American businessman
• 1949 – Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter
• 1950 – David Brin, American author
• 1951 – Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (REO Speedwagon)
• 1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
• 1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author
• 1952 – Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
• 1953 – Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
• 1954 – David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys, and Los Super Seven)
• 1954 – Darrell M. West, American author and academic
• 1955 – Tony Dungy, American football player and coach
• 1956 – Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician
• 1956 – Kathleen Webb, American writer and illustrator
• 1958 – Joseph Finder, American author
• 1959 – Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2012)
• 1959 – Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
• 1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician
• 1959 – Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
• 1962 – Rich Yett, American baseball player
• 1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor and producer
• 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
• 1964 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
• 1964 – Tom Jager, American swimmer
• 1964 – Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Community Trolls, Oh-OK, and The Thorns)
• 1965 – Steve Scalise, American politician
• 1965 – Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
• 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
• 1967 – Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
• 1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
• 1968 – Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer
• 1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
• 1969 – Adrienne Armstrong, American businesswoman and activist, co-founded Adeline Records
• 1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress, singer, and gymnast
• 1970 – Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
• 1970 – Darren Oliver, American baseball player
• 1971 – Phil Bennett, English race car driver
• 1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
• 1971 – Takis Gonias, Greek footballer
• 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
• 1972 – Anders Iwers, Swedish bass player (Tiamat, Cemetary, and Ceremonial Oath)
• 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
• 1972 – Ryu Shi-won, South Korean actor and singer
• 1972 – Ko So-young, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
• 1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
• 1973 – Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
• 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
• 1974 – Alexis Georgoulis, Greek actor
• 1974 – Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor
• 1975 – Reon King, Guyanese cricketer
• 1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1976 – Magdalena Kučerová, German tennis player
• 1976 – Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
• 1977 – Danny Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
• 1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
• 1977 – Jamie Laurie, American singer-songwriter (Flobots)
• 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
• 1977 – Wes Ramsey, American actor
• 1978 – Carolina Gynning, Swedish model and actress
• 1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
• 1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
• 1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
• 1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
• 1979 – Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter
• 1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
• 1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
• 1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 – Michael Arden, American actor
• 1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
• 1982 – William Butler, American musician (Arcade Fire)
• 1982 – Meiyang Chаng, Indian actor and singer
• 1982 – MC Lars, American rapper
• 1982 – Fábio Júnior dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Paul Smith, English boxer
• 1982 – Bronagh Waugh, Irish actress
• 1983 – Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
• 1984 – Morne Morkel, South African cricketer
• 1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American singer-songwriter and actress (City (Comma) State)
• 1985 – Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
• 1985 – Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
• 1986 – Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
• 1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
• 1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
• 1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 – Roshon Fegan, American actor and dancer
• 1995 – Jessica Lunsford, American murder victim (d. 2005)
• 1996 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

Deaths

• 404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Roman wife of Arcadius
• 836 – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general and monk (b. 762)
• 869 – Ermentrude of Orléans (b. 823)
• 877 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (b. 823)
• 1014 – Samuel of Bulgaria, Bulgarian general (b. 958)
• 1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian (b. 1030)
• 1413 – Dawit I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1382)
• 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
• 1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
• 1644 – Elisabeth of France (b. 1602)
• 1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Guru Har Rai, Pakistani 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
• 1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1652)
• 1739 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (b. 1684)
• 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
• 1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 – Pierre Derbigny, American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter (b. 1770)
• 1873 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
• 1883 – Duc Duc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1945 – Leonardo Conti, German nazi leader (b. 1900)
• 1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
• 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1953 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (b. 1875)
• 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian (b. 1865)
• 1962 – Tod Browning, American director (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician (b. 1917)
• 1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1973 – François Cevert, French Formula One racer (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch author (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Danny Greene, American mobster (b. 1933)
• 1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1983 – Terence Cooke, American archbishop (b. 1921)
• 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader and composer (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler (b. 1937)
• 2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican singer and actor (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch runner (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921)
• 2007 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Viet Nguyen, Vietnamese conjoined twin (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian jurist (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Peter Cox, Australian politician (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
• 2010 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Piet Wijn, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan, Bahraini protester (b. 1994)
• 2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Antonio Cisneros, Peruvian poet (b. 1942)
• 2012 – John Cleary, Canadian politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Raoul De Keyser, Belgian painter (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Gérard Gropaiz, French swimmer (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
• 2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Montenegro)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
  • Bruno of Cologne
  • Faith
  • Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
  • Pardulphus
  • Sagar of Laodicea
  • October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Christian Commemoration:
  • William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures into English, Martyr, 1536 A.D. (Anglicanism)
• Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)
• Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)
• German-American Day (United States)
• Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)
• Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka)
• Yom Kippur War commemoration, and its related observance:
  • Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
  • Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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