October 6 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
Up to 1900
105 BC – Battle of Arausio : The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of 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 .23 – Rebels kill and behead Xin Dynasty Emperor Wang Mang in China .404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia ends her seventh pregnancy in a miscarriage . She bleeds to death shortly after.891 – Formosus becomes Pope .1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital city of Anhaica, present–day Tallahassee , Florida .1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy , Poland , Portugal and Spain .1600 – Jacopo Peri 's Euridice opera , premieres in Florence .1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .1762 – Seven Years' War : End of the Battle of Manila between British and Spanish forces, resulting in British occupation of the city until the end of the war.1777 – American Revolutionary War : General Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of the Continental Army defenses on the Hudson River in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery .1789 – French Revolution : Louis XVI of France returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by Parisian woman on the previous day.1849 – Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence .1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead begins shortly after midnight, killing 53 people.1860 – The Introduction of the so–called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) was enacted in British India 1871 – The Introduction of the so–called Criminal Tribes Act was enacted in British India 1876 – The American Library Association is founded.1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island .1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first movie .1889 – Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschneller make the first ascent of Kilimanjaro , the highest mountain in Africa in what is now Tanzania .– 20001903 – 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.1921 – International PEN is founded in London .1923 – The Great Powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer , the first prominent talking movie.1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China .1939 – World War II : The German invasion of Poland is completed.1942 – World War II : The United States Marine Corps begins the October Matanikau Action on Guadalcanal , present–day Solomon Islands , against the Imperial Japanese Army .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, as Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel .1976 – Cubana Flight 455 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 .1978 – Anni–Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson , members of the Swedish pop group ABBA , are married. Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden .1979 – Pope John Paul II visits the White House .1981 – President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is assassinated, while inspecting a military parade.1985 – Police Constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London .1987 – Fiji becomes a Republic .1991 – The Social Democratic Party under Anibal Cavaco Silva wins the Portuguese parliamentary election .1993 – Michael Jordan surprisingly announces his retirement from basketball .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 died on October 12 ).1999 – Filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy begins in New Zealand .2000 – Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia .2000 – Argentine Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigns.Births
Up to 1900
210 BC – Ptolemy V Epiphanes , Pharaoh of Egypt (d. 181 BC )1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306 )1459 – Martin Behaim , navigator , geographer (d. c. 1507 )1510 – Rowland Taylor , pastor, martyr (d. 1555 )1552 – Matteo Ricci , Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610 )1591 – Settimia Caccini , Italian composer and singer (d. 1638 )1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789 )1742 – Johan Herman Wessel , Norwegian–Danish poet (d. 1786 )1744 – James McGill , Scottish–Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813 )1767 – Henri Christophe , King of Haiti (d. 1820 )1768 – Samuel C. Crafts , Governor of Vermont (d. 1853 )1769 – Major–General Sir Isaac Brock , British commander during the War of 1812 (d. 1812 )1773 – John MacCulloch , Scottish geologist (d. 1835 )1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850 )1783 – François Magendie , French physician (d. 1855 )1801 – Hippolyte Carnot , French statesman (d. 1888 )1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , German physicist (d. 1879 )1808 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863 )1820 – Jenny Lind , Swedish singer (d. 1887 )1831 – Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (d. 1916 )1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910 )1842 – Felice Cavallotti , Italian politician (d. 1898 )1846 – George Westinghouse , American engineer and inventor (d. 1914 )1849 – Basil Zaharoff , Greek weapons dealer (d. 1936 )1862 – Albert J. Beveridge , American historian and politician (d. 1927 )1866 – Reginald Fessenden , Canadian inventor (d. 1932 )1868 – George Horace Lorimer , editor of the Saturday Evening Post 1937 )1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian writer (d. 1936 )1874 – Frank G. Allen , 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950 )1882 – Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer (d. 1937 )1886 – Edwin Fischer , pianist and conductor (d. 1960 )1886 – Georges Vantongerloo , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1965 )1887 – Le Corbusier , Swiss architect (d. 1965 )1887 – Maria Jeritza , Austrian soprano (d. 1982 )1888 – Roland Garros , French pilot (d. 1918 )1889 – Zalman Shazar , President of Israel (d. 1974 )1890 – Jan Grijseels , Dutch runner (d. 1961 )1891 – David Sholtz , Governor of Florida (d. 1953 )1891 – Hendrik Adamson , Estonian poet (d. 1946 )1892 – Jackie Saunders , American silent movie actress (d. 1954 )1893 – Meghnad Saha , Indian astrophysicist (d. 1956 )1898 – Mitchell Leisen , American director , producer and costume designer (d. 1972 )1900 – Willy Merkl , German mountaineer (d. 1934 )– 19501903 – Ernest Walton , Irish physicist (d. 1995 )1905 – Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (d. 1998 )1906 – Janet Gaynor , American actress (d. 1984 )1907 – Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican composer (d. 1990 )1908 – Carole Lombard , American actress (d. 1942 )1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev , Russian mathematician (d. 1989 )1910 – Barbara Castle , Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002 )1913 – Méret Oppenheim , German–Swiss artist and writer (d. 1985 )1914 – Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002 )1916 – Chiang Wei-kuo , Chinese general (d. 1997 )1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer , American civil rights activist (d. 1977 )1921 – Yevgeniy Landis , Russian mathematician (d. 1997 )1923 – Yasar Kemal , Turkish writer (d. 2015 )1925 – Lyuben Berov , 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2006 )1927 – Emmanuel III Delly , Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2014 )1928 – Barbara Werle , American actress (d. 2013 )1929 – Bruno Cremer , French actor (d. 2010 )1929 – Einar H. Ingman, Jr. , American soldier (d. 2015 )1930 – Hafez al-Assad , President of Syria (d. 2000 )1930 – Richie Benaud , Australian cricketer (d. 2015 )1931 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh , Russian astronomer (d. 2004 )1931 – Riccardo Giacconi , Italian–American physicist (d. 2018 )1934 – Marshall Rosenberg , American psychologist (d. 2015 )1935 – Ernesto Laclau , Argentine philosopher and political theorist (d. 2014 )1935 – Bruno Sammartino , Italian–American professional wrestler 1937 – Mario Capecchi , Italian–American molecular geneticist1939 – Melvyn Bragg , British broadcaster1940 – Jan Keizer , Dutch football referee1940 – Ellen Travolta , American actress1941 – Winston Ntshona , South African playwright and actor (d. 2018 )1941 – Paul Popham , American soldier and activist (d. 1987 )1942 – Britt Ekland , Swedish actress1943 – Ottavio Bianchi , Italian footballer 1943 – Cees Veerman , Dutch musician (d. 2014 )1944 – Boris Mikhailov , Soviet ice hockey player1945 – Ivan Graziani , Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997 )1946 – Lloyd Doggett , American politician1946 – Tony Greig , South African–born English cricketer (d. 2012 )1947 – Patxi Andion , Spanish singer-songwriter 1947 – Klaus Dibiasi , diver1948 – Gerry Adams , Northern Irish politician1948 – Glenn Branca , American composer and guitarist1949 – Jim Gilmore , American politician, former Governor of West Virginia 1949 – Bobby Farrell , Aruban –born performer (d. 2010 )1949 – Leslie Moonves , American businessman (CBS Corporation )1950 – David Brin , American science fiction writer– 19751951 – Kevin Cronin , American musician1951 – Manfred Winkelhock , German auto racing driver (d. 1985 )1951 – Clive Rees , Welsh rugby player1953 – Claas Bruinsma , Dutch drugs dealer (d. 1991 )1960 – Richard Jobson , Scottish singer and musician 1960 – Yves Leterme , former Prime Minister of Belgium 1961 – Ben Summerskill , English businessman , Chief Executive of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall 1963 – Sven Andersson , Swedish footballer 1963 – Elisabeth Shue , American actress1964 – Knut Storberget , Norwegian lawyer and politician 1964 – Mark Field , English politician 1966 – Fito Cabrales , Spanish singer , guitarist and composer 1966 – Niall Quinn , Irish footballer1967 – Attila Ambrus , Hungarian bank robber and ice hockey player1967 – Kennet Andersson , Swedish footballer 1967 – Svend Carlsen , Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder1967 – Steven Woolfe , English politician1969 – Muhammad V of Kelantan , former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia 1969 – Troy Shaw , English snooker player1970 – Shauna MacDonald , Canadian actress1971 – Alan Stubbs , English footballer1972 – Mark Schwarzer , Australian footballer1972 – Dominic Andres , Swiss curler 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd , Welsh actor1973 – Rebecca Lobo , American basketball player1974 – Walter Centeno , Costa Rican footballer1974 – Jeremy Sisto , American actor , producer and screenwriter 1975 – Peter Pellegrini , Slovakian politician, Prime minister of Slovakia From 1976
1977 – Melinda Doolittle , American singer1977 – Shimon Gershon , Israeli footballer1977 – Vladimir Manchev , Bulgarian footballer1978 – Ricky Hatton , British boxer1979 – David Di Tommaso , French footballer (d. 2005 )1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili , Georgian footballer1982 – Levon Aronian , Armenian chess player1982 – William Butler , American musician (Arcade Fire )1982 – Michael Frater , Jamaican sprinter1984 – Valerie Adams , New Zealand shot putter 1984 – Joanna Pacitti , American actress and singer1985 – Mitchell Cole , English footballer (d. 2012 )1985 – Sylvia Fowles , American basketball player1986 – Olivia Thirlby , American actress1986 – Mohammed Shukri , Malaysian cricketer 1988 – Stephen Darby , English footballer1988 – Maki Horikita , Japanese model and actress1989 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo , Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014 )1989 – Sophia Thomalla , German actress, presenter and model1990 – Scarlett Byrne , English actress1990 – Han Sun-hwa , South Korean singer, dancer and rapper1990 – Jynx Maze , American pornographic actress1990 – Jordan Hamilton , American basketball player1991 – Roshon Fegan , American actor1993 – Adam Gemili , English athlete1996 – Sara Takanashi , Japanese ski jumper1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink , German actress and singer2000 – Jazz Jennings , American YouTuber , television personality and LGBT activist2002 – Cleopatra Stratan , Moldovan singerDeaths
Up to 1900
23 – Wang Mang , Chinese Xin Dynasty Emperor404 – Aelia Eudoxia , Roman Empress877 – Charles the Bald , Roman Emperor (b. 823 )1014 – Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958 )1101 – Bruno of Cologne , German–Italian monk and saint (b. 1037 )1413 – Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382 )1542 – Thomas Wyatt , English poet (b. 1503 )1641 – Matthijs Quast , Dutch explorer1644 – Elisabeth of Bourbon , consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602 )1660 – Paul Scarron , French poet and author (b. 1610 )1661 – Guru Har Rai , 7th Sikh Guru (b. 1630 )1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle , English statesman (b. 1652 )1762 – Francesco Manfredini , Italian baroque composer (b. 1684 )1777 – Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin , French author (b. 1699 )1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751 )1829 – Pierre Debigny , Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769 )1849 – Ludwig Batthyany , Hungarian Prime Minister (b. 1807 )1863 – Frances Trollope , English writer (b. 1779 )1873 – Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki , Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797 )1883 – Duc Duc , Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1852 )1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell , Irish politician (b. 1846 )1891 – Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823 )1892 – Alfred Tennyson , British poet laureate (b. 1809 )– 20001912 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert , Belgian statesman (b. 1829 )1940 – Henry Horner , Governor of Illinois (b. 1878 )1945 – Leonardo Conti , German SS officer (b. 1900 )1946 – Per Albin Hansson , Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885 )1951 – Otto Meyerhof , German doctor , won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884 )1951 – Will Keith Kellogg , American food manufacturer (b. 1860 )1953 – Vera Mukhina , Russian sculptor (b. 1889 )1956 – Samuel R. McKelvie , Governor of Nebraska (b. 1881 )1962 – Tod Browning , American movie director (b. 1880 )1973 – François Cevert , French racing driver (b. 1944 )1974 – Luther H. Hodges , Governor of North Carolina (b. 1898 )1976 – Gilbert Ryle , British philosopher (b. 1900 )1979 – Elizabeth Bishop , American writer (b. 1911 )1980 – Hattie Jacques , British comedy actress (b. 1922 )1980 – Jean Robic , French cyclist (b. 1921 )1981 – Anwar Sadat , President of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1918 )1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke , tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921 )1984 – George Gaylord Simpson , American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1902 )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 , suicide (b. 1949 )1989 – Bette Davis , American actress (b. 1908 )1992 – Denholm Elliott , English actor (b. 1922 )1993 – Agnes de Mille , American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905 )1995 – Benoit Chamoux , French climber (b. 1961 )1999 – Amalia Rodrigues , Portuguese singer (b. 1920 )2000 – Richard Farnsworth , American actor (b. 1920 )From 2001
2002 – Claus von Amsberg , husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926 )2004 – Yogi Bhajan , Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1929 )2006 – Eduardo Mignogna , Argentine movie director (b. 1940 )2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale , Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921 )2011 – Diane Cilento , Australian actress (b. 1933 )2012 – Chadli Bendjedid , 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929 )2014 – Igor Mitoraj , Polish sculptor (b. 1944 )2014 – Bill Campbell , American sportscaster (b. 1923 )2014 – Marian Seldes , American actress (b. 1928 )2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka , Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976 )2015 – Arpad Goncz , former President of Hungary (b. 1922 )2015 – Kevin Corcoran , American actor (b. 1949 )2015 – Billy Joe Royal , American singer (b. 1942 )2015 – Christine Arnothy , French writer (b. 1930 )2017 – Roberto Anzolin , Italian footballer (b. 1938 )2017 – Terry Downes , British boxer and actor (b. 1936 )2017 – Ralphie May , American comedian and actor (b. 1972 )2017 – Darsi Ferrer Ramírez , Cuban journalist and physician (b. 1969 )2017 – Connie Hawkins , American basketball player (b. 1942 )2017 – Toon Geurts , Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932 )2018 – Eef Brouwers , Dutch journalist and spokesman (b. 1939 )2018 – Montserrat Caballé , Spanish opera singer (b. 1933 )2018 – Quentin Kenihan , American disability activist (b. 1975 )2018 – Don Sandburg , American actor (b. 1930 )2018 – Scott Wilson , American actor (b. 1942 )2019 – Ginger Baker , English musician (Cream ) (b. 1939 )2019 – Yevgeny Bushmin , Russian politician (b. 1958 )2019 – Vlasta Chramostová , Czech actress (b. 1926 )2019 – Masaichi Kaneda , Japanese baseball player (b. 1933 )2019 – Martin Lauer , German sprinter (b. 1937 )2019 – Neale Lavis , Australian equestrian (b. 1930 )2019 – Karen Pendleton , American actress (b. 1946 )2019 – David Petel , Iraqi–Israeli politician (b. 1921 )2019 – Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche , Tibetan Buddhist leader (b. 1924 )2019 – Rip Taylor , American actor and comedian (b. 1935 )2020 – Eddie Van Halen , Dutch–American guitarist (Van Halen ) (b. 1955 )Observances
Armed Forces Day (Egypt )
German–American Day
Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka )