Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 6
October 6: German-American Day in the United States.
- 105 BC – The Cimbri and the Teutons inflicted a major defeat on the Roman Republic in the Battle of Arausio.
- 1927 – The first successful feature sound film The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.
- 1973 – Egyptian troops under President Anwar Sadat (pictured) crossed the Suez Canal and destroyed the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China.
- 1995 – In an article published by the scientific journal Nature, astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
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