Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 6
- 1927 - The first successful talking movie "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson, was released.
- 1976 - Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China.
- 1981 - Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat (pictured right) was assassinated.
- 1995 - An article in the journal Nature 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 attacked for being gay (he later died from his wounds).