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What Happened on October 6th This Day in History

Year Name
2022 Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2018 The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
2010 Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2007 Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
1995 The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
1987 Fiji becomes a republic.
1985 Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1981 NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1977 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1976 Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
1976 Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976 Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.
1973 Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1944 World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
1943 World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
1942 World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1939 World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1927 Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1923 The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1915 Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen .
1915 Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
1910 Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
1908 The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1903 The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1898 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1884 The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1854 In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1849 The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1810 A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
1789 French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
1762 Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
1683 Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1600 Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1539 Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
618 Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
404 Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
105 Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic.
69 Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
23 Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
Famous People Born on October 6

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Year Name
1565 Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)
1999 Trevor Lawrence, American football player
1973 Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer and manager
1888 Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
1801 Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888)
1773 John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (d. 1835)
1922 Teala Loring, American actress (d. 2007)
1986 Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice
1982 Hideki Mutoh, Japanese race car driver
Famous People Deaths On October 6

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Date Name
1962 Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
2018 Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
1873 Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
1819 Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1972 Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
1553 Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (b. 1515)
1981 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1942 Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
1959 Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
2001 Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)