October 6

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October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.

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Events

105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
891 - Formosus becomes Pope
1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence
1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie
1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China
1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people
1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States
1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins
1976 - Cubana CUT-1201 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados
1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
1995 - 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he dies on October 12).
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic resigns
2002 - French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate
1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)
1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
1985 - Murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Riot, London
1985 - Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
1988 - Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982
1989 - Bette Davis, American actress
1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor
1993 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer
2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

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