October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

Events

• 105 BC - Battle of Arausio The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
• 891 - Formosus becomes Pope
• 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, is premiered in Florence
• 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie
• 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China
• 1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashed in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming killing 66 people
• 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in America
• 1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins
• 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
• 1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he dies on October 12).

• 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France
• 1820 - Jenny Lind, singer
• 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician († 1916)
• 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor († 1914)
• 1868 - George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post († 1937)
• 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, composer († 1937)
• 1886 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect († 1965)
• 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player († 1998)
• 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress († 1984)
• 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress († 1942)
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition. († 2002)
• 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria († 2000)
• 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
• 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, "The Italian Strongman"
• 1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician
• 1950 - David Brin, science fiction author
• 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver († 1985)

• 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British author
• 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)
• 1985 - Murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Riot, London
• 1988 - Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982
• 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress
• 1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor
• 1993 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer
• 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
• 2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

• German-American Day (U.S observance, since 1987)