On this day in History - Oct 06

105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
0023 - Wang Mang dies (b. 45 BC). Founder of Xin Dinasty
0891 - Formosus becomes Pope
1289 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia was born (d. 1306)
1459 - Martin Behaim was born (d. 1507). German navigator and geographer
1510 - Rowland Taylor was born (d.1555). English clergyman.
1536 - William Tyndale dies. English Bible translator
1542 - Thomas Wyatt dies (b. 1503). English poet.
1552 - Matteo Ricci was born (d. 1610). Italian Jesuit missionary.
1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton was born (d. 1624). English patron of the theater.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence
1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier was born (d. 1690). French soldier.
1641 - Matthijs Quast dies. Dutch explorer.
1644 - Elisabeth of France dies (b. 1602). Queen of Philip IV of Spain.
1660 - Paul Scarron dies (b. 1610). French writer
1661 - Guru Har Rai dies (b. 26 Feb 1630). Seventh Sikh Guru
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle dies (b. 1652). English statesman.
1762 - Francesco Manfredini dies (b. 1684). Italian composer
1769 - Sir Isaac Brock was born (d. 1812). British commander.
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France was born (d. 1850)
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was born (d. 1879). German physicist.
1807 - Humphry Davy inicia primeiras experiências com a eletrólise com a obtenção do elemento químico potássio
1820 - Jenny Lind was born (d. 1887). Swedish soprano.
1831 - Richard Dedekind was born († 1916). German mathematician.
1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba was born (d. 1910). Italian patriot and writer.
1846 - George Westinghouse was born (d. 1914). American engineer and inventor.
1846 - José Francisco de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Pedro de Sousa Holstein.
1848 - Austria declares war against Hungary
1855 - August Leopold Crelle dies (b. 1780). German mathematicien.

1862 - Em Lisboa, casamento do rei português D. Luís com a princesa Maria Pia de Sabóia.
1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki dies (b. 1797). Polish explorer and geologist
1882 - Karol Szymanowski was born (d. 1937). Polish composer and pianist.
1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1886 - Edwin Fischer was born (d. 1960). Swiss pianist and conductor.
1887 - Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was born († 1965). Swiss-born French architect
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1889 - Hans Meyer, Ludwig Purtscheller e o guia Yohana Lauwo alcançam o topo do Kilimanjaro

1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson dies (b. 1809). British poet.

1893 - Nasce, em Torres Novas, Maria Lamas (m. 6 Dez 1983). Escritora portuguesa e activista defensora dos direitos das mulheres ( As Mulheres do meu País, As Mulheres no Mundo , O Mundo dos Deuses e dos Heróis, Para Além do Amor, A Ilha Verde ).
1900 - Stan Nichols was born (d. 1961). English cricketer.
1903 - Ernest Walton was born (d. 1995). Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1905 - Helen Wills Moody was born (d. 1998). American tennis player.
1906 - Janet Gaynor was born (d. 1984). American actress.
1908 - Carole Lombard was born (d. 1942). American actress.
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 - Barbara Castle was born (d. 2002). British politician.
1910 - Morre Bartolomeu Sezinando Ribeiro Artur(n. 11 Ago 1851). Militar, escritor e artista português.
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl was born (d. 2002)., Norwegian explorer.
1915 - Humberto Sousa Medeiros was born († 1983). Portuguese cardinal
1916 - Ulysses Guimarães was born († 1992). Brazilian politician
1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer was born. American civil rights activist.
1919 - Ricardo Palma dies. Peruvian writer.
1920 - Pietro Consagra was born (d. 2005). Italian sculptor
1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington was born (d. 2005). Master of the Rolls.
1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
1923 - Portugal : Manuel Teixeira Gomes substitui António José de Almeida no cargo de Presidente da República Portuguesa.
1925 - Shana Alexander was born (d. 2005). American columnist.
1926 - Jacqueline Pagnol was born. French actress.
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie
1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China
1930 - Hafez al-Assad was born (d. 2000). President of Syria.
1930 - Richie Benaud was born. Australian cricket player
1931 - Riccardo Giacconi was born. Italian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 - Bruno Sammartino was born. Italian strongman
1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1940 - Altemar Dutra was born. Brazilian singer.
1943 - Michael Durrell was born. American actor
1945 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was born. President of Brazil
1945 - Bill Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1946 - Lloyd Doggett was born. American politician.
1947 - Patxi Andión was born. Spanish singer.
1948 - Gerry Adams was born. Irish politician
1950 - David Brin was born. American author
1951 - Manfred Winkelhock was born (d. 1985). German race car driver.
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof dies (b. 1884). German biochemist. Nobel Prize in Medicine lauteate in 1922.
1954 - José Garcia was born. French humorist.
1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
1962 - Tod Browning dies (b. 1880). American film director.
1963 - Elizabeth Shue was born. American actress
1965 - Brasil: Presidente Castelo Branco envia ao Congresso medidas para endurecer o regime ditatorial no Brasil
1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1966 - Jacqueline Obradors was born. American actress.
1969 - Troy Shaw was born. English snooker player
1973 - Rebecca Lobo was born. American basketball player
1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins
1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados
1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1978 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.
1981 - Anwar Sadat dies assassinated (b. 1918). President of Egypt.
1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke dies (b. 1921). Archbishop of New York.
1985 - Líder do Partido Popular, Lucas Pires, apresenta sua demissão.
1985 - Alain Prost is world champion in Formula 1.
1986 - Nelson Riddle dies (b. 1921). American bandleader.
1989 - Bette Davis dies (b. 1908). American actress.
1989 - Alec Szczerbinski was born. American golfer.

1991 - Em Portugal, eleições legislativas dão ao PSD maioria absoluta com 50,6% dos votos.
1992 - Denholm Elliott dies (b. 1922). English actor.

1992 - Em Portugal, dá-se o início das emissões da SIC, a primeira estação privada de televisão.
1993 - Agnes de Mille dies (b. 1905). American dancer and choreographer.

1993 - Cyril Cusack dies. Irish actor.
1995 - 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
1999 - Amália Rodrigues dies in Lisbon (b. 1920). Portuguese fado singer.

1999 - A magistrada Fidelma O’Kelly Macken (n. 1945), é eleita juiz do Tribunal de Justiça das s Comunidades Europeias. É a primeira mulher a aceder a este cargo.
2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns
2000 - Canonização de Josemaría Escrivá, fundador da Opus Dei
2000 - Richard Farnsworth dies (b. 1930). American actor.
2001 - The most-attended ice hockey game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, before a crowd of 74,554.
2002 - French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

2003 - A escritora espanhola Julia Uceda (b. 1925) obtém o Premio Nacional de Poesía 2003, concedido pelo Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, de Espanha. (En el viento, hacia el mar)
German-American Day (U.S. observance, since 1987)
National Day or Victory Day in Egypt; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973
Mad Hatter Day in U.S.