Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 6
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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.
- 1849 – In Arad, present-day Romania, 13 Hungarian rebel honvéd generals who became known as the 13 Martyrs of Arad were executed by Austrian authorities for their part in the Hungarian Revolution.
- 1927 – The first successful feature sound film The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.
- 1973 – Egypt, under the leadership of President Anwar Sadat (pictured), launched Operation Badr in co-ordination with Syria, crossing the Suez Canal and attacking the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur War.
- 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.
- 1998 – University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay near Laramie, Wyoming, US.