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This day in history: 6 October

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Key facts

400 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 6 October.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2010: Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Isidore De Loor

Christian feast day: Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza

Christian feast day: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher

Christian feast day: Bruno of Cologne

Christian feast day: Faith

Christian feast day: Mary Frances of the Five Wounds

Christian feast day: October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pardulphus

Christian feast day: Sagar of Laodicea

Christian feast day: William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))

Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)

Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)

Events

2010Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

1939World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.

1915World War I: 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.

1789French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

1777American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.

1987Fiji becomes a republic.

1979Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

2018The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.

1762Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

1977The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

1981Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

1915World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.

1620The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth suffers a defeat against the Ottoman Empire in the battle of Cecora after a heroic defense over several days and the death of their commander Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski.

1976Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

1927Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

1539Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.

1910Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

2022Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1976Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.

1990Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.

-105Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic

1920Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina.

891Election of Pope Formosus following the death of pope Stephen V in the previous month.

1884The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

1908The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-69Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia.

1683Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

1973Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

1903The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

1923The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

1995The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.

1985Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

1976Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

1942World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

1898Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

1981NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.

23Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.

1849The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

1600Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

618Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.

Born on this day

1999Trevor Lawrence, American football player

2000Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer

2004Bronny James, American basketball player

2000Kyle Pitts, American football player

2002Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player

1996Kevin Diks, Indonesian footballer

2004Hanni, Australian singer

2000Jazz Jennings, American internet personality

1997Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer

2001Hitomi Honda, Japanese singer based in South Korea

1994Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter

1994Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player

1993Adam Gemili, English sprinter

1993Jourdan Miller, American fashion model

1993Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player

1992Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player

1992Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player

1990Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

1990Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player

1990Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player

1990Scarlett Byrne, English actress

1989Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (died 2014)

1989Pizzi, Portuguese footballer

1989Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player

1987Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player

1986Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1986Olivia Thirlby, American actress

1985Mitchell Cole, English footballer (died 2012)

1985Sandra Góngora, Mexican ten-pin bowler

1985Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player

1985Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer

1984Morné Morkel, South African cricketer

1983Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player

1982Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster

1982Paul Smith, English boxer

1982Will Butler, American musician and composer

1981Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

1980Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer

1979David Di Tommaso, French footballer (died 2005)

1979Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager

Died on this day

2024Dave Hobson, American politician (born 1936)

2024Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)

2020Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)

2020Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

2019Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (born 1936)

2019Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939)

2019Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931)

2018Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)

2018Scott Wilson, American actor (born 1942)

2017David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (born 1952)

2017Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1972)

2015Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922)

2015Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923)

2015Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926)

2014Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944)

2014Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (born 1933)

2014Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (born 1944)

2014Marian Seldes, American actress (born 1928)

2014Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976)

2014Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (born 1929)

2013Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)

2013Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917)

2013Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)

2013Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)

2012Albert, Margrave of Meissen (born 1943)

2012Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (born 1931)

2012B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (born 1927)

2012Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929)

2012J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (born 1920)

2012Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (born 1941)

Quote of the day

“Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work.”

Seneca

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