October 6
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years ). There are 86 days remaining.
Events
200 BC-1899
1900-1999
1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1921 - International PEN is founded in London .
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer , the first prominent 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 .
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.
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 Laramie, Wyoming , University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay October 12 ).
2000-2099
Births
1100-1899
1289 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306 )
1459 - Martin Behaim , navigator , geographer (d. c. 1507 )
1510 - Rowland Taylor , pastor, martyr (d. 1555 )
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850 )
1820 - Jenny Lind , singer (d. 1887 )
1831 - Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (d. 1916 )
1846 - George Westinghouse , American engineer, inventor (d. 1914 )
1868 - George Horace Lorimer , editor of the Saturday Evening Post 1937 )
1882 - Karol Szymanowski , composer (d. 1937 )
1886 - Edwin Fischer , pianist and conductor (d. 1960 )
1887 - Le Corbusier , Swiss architect (d. 1965 )
1900-1999
1905 - Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player (d. 1998 )
1906 - Janet Gaynor American actress (d. 1984 )
1908 - Carole Lombard , American actress (d. 1942 )
1910 - Barbara Castle , Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002 )
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002 )
1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer , American civil rights activist
1930 - Hafez al-Assad , President of Syria (d. 2000 )
1930 - Richie Benaud , Australian cricket player
1935 - Bruno Sammartino , "The Italian Strongman"
1946 - Lloyd Doggett , American politician
1948 - Gerry Adams , Irish politician
1950 - David Brin , science fiction author
1951 - Manfred Winkelhock , German auto racing driver (d. 1985 )
1969 - Troy Shaw , English snooker player
1993 - Demi Garcia , young Tejano singer
2000-2999
Deaths
Prior to 1800
1800-1899
1900-1999
1962 - Tod Browning , American film director
1981 - Anwar Sadat , Egyptian president (assassinated) (b. 1918 )
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 , 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 )
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
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