October 6 in History

Historical Events on October 6

105 BC

Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
69 BC

Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
AD 23

Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
618

Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi, during the transition from Sui to Tang civil war.
1539

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
1582

Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600

Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque period
1683

German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1723

Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
1762

Seven Years' War: Conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1777

American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
1789

French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on October 5.
1849

The execution of The 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854

In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1876

The American Library Association was founded.
1884

The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1898

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills.
1903

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908

Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
1910

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (seven times in total).
1923

The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1927

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1934

Events of 6 October 1934 in Catalonia.
1939

World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after the Battle of Kock
1942

World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1943

World War II: 13 civilians are burnt alive by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kali Sykia, Crete.
1944

World War II: Units of 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps crossed Czechoslovak borders during Battle of the Dukla Pass.
1973

Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1976

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.
1976

New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976

Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
1977

In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1977

The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1985

PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987

Fiji becomes a republic.
1995

51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
2007

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

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