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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
1988	Trey Edward Shults, American film director
1949	Leslie Moonves, American businessman
1887	Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)
1972	Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1908	Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1876	Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1941)
1949	Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
1940	Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
1918	Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
1922	Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)

Famous People Deaths On October 6

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 6. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1536	William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1413	Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1173	Engelbert III, margrave of Istria
1873	Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
1998	Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1981	Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2017	Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)
1942	Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
2020	Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)
1945	Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)