On this day in History - Oct. 6

• 0105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
• 0068 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
• 0023 - Wang Mang dies (b. 45 BC). Founder of Xin Dinasty
• 0891 - Formosus becomes Pope
• 1014 - Samuil dies (b. 0958). Tsar of Bulgaria.
• 1101 - Bruno of Cologne dies. German founder of the Carthusian order
• 1289 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia was born (d. 1306).
• 1413 - Dawit I was born (d. 1382). Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1459 - Martin Behaim was born (d. 1507). German navigator and geographer
• 1510 - Rowland Taylor was born (d.1555). English clergyman.
• 1536 - William Tyndale dies burned at the stake. 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
• 1683 - The first German Mennonite settlers arrive in America. They will establish Germantown, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle dies (b. 1652). English statesman.
• 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax was born (d. 1771). English statesman.
• 1744 - James McGill was born (d. 1813). Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
• 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)
• 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
• 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot was born (d. 1888). French statesman.
• 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 - João Carlos de Saldanha de Oliveira e Daun toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Pedro de Sousa Holstein.
• 1848 - Austria declares war against Hungary
• 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
• 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was ignited a little after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds of injured.
• 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.
• 1866 - Reginald Fessenden was born (d. 1932). Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer.
• 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin was born (d. 1936). Russian writer.
• 1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki dies (b. 1797). Polish explorer and geologist.
• 1876 - A group of public and university librarians establish the American Library Association to promote the enjoyment of reading.
• 1876 - Ernest Lapointe was born (d. 1941). French Canadian politician.
• 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
• 1887 - Le Corbusier was born (d. 1965). Swiss architect.
• 1888 - Roland Garros was born (d. 1918). French pilot.
• 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 1889 - Hans Meyer, Ludwig Purtscheller e o guia Yohana Lauwo alcançam o topo do Kilimanjaro
• 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell dies (b. 1846). Irish politician.
• 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 ).
• 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 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 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev was born (d. 1989). Russian mathematician.
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1910 - Barbara Castle was born (d. 2002). British politician.
• 1910 - Bartolomeu Sezinando Ribeiro Artur dirs (b. 11 Ago 1851). Portuguese soldier, writer and artist.
• 1912 - Pauline Gore was born (d. 2004). Mother of American Vice President Al Gore.
• 1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert dies (b. 1829). Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 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). British judge, Master of the Rolls.
• 1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
• 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis was born (d. 1997). Russian mathematician.
• 1922 - Joe Frazier was born. Baseball player
• 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
• 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, on New York, 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
• 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was born (d. 2004). Russian astronomer.
• 1935 - Bruno Sammartino was born. Italian strongman.
• 1936 - Anna Quayle was born. Actress (Mistress Pamela)
• 1938 - Serge Nubret was born. French bodybuilder
• 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
• 1940 - Altemar Dutra was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1942 - Britt Ekland was born. Swedish actress
• 1942 - Millie Small was born. Jamaican singer
• 1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov was born. Russian painter
• 1943 - Michael Durrell was born. American actor
• 1944 - José Carlos Pace was bor. Race car driver.
• 1945 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was born. President of Brazil
• 1945 - Baseball: 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.
• 1946 - Tony Greig was born. South African-born cricketer
• 1946 - Johnny O'Keefe dies (b. 1935). Australian singer.
• 1947 - Patxi Andión was born. Spanish singer.
• 1947 - Leevi Madetoja dies (b. 1887). Finnish composer.
• 1948 - Gerry Adams was born. Irish politician
• 1949 - Tokyo Rose (FBI) : Iva Toguri d'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason; she broadcast discouraging messages to American soldiers during World War II.
• 1950 - David Brin was born. American author
• 1950 - Thomas McClary was born. American guitarist (Commodores)
• 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock was born (d. 1985). German race car driver.
• 1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof dies (b. 1884). German biochemist, who was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922.
• 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg dies (b. 1860). American food manufacturer (Kellogg Company)
• 1952 - Ayten Mutlu was born. Turkish poet and writer.
• 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma was born (d. 1991). Dutch drug lord.
• 1954 - José Garcia was born. French humorist.
• 1955 - Tony Dungy was born. American football coach
• 1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
• 1959 - Pillow Talk debuts. Pillow Talk, the first of three films in which Doris Day and Rock Hudson starred together, debuts on this day
• 1959 - Bernard Berenson dies (b. 1865). American art historian.
• 1963 - Edith Piaf marries Hairdresser
• 1962 - Tod Browning dies (b. 1880). American film director.
• 1963 - Chip Foose was born. Automobile Customizer
• 1963 - Elisabeth Shue was born. American film actress
• 1965 - Brasil: Presidente Castelo Branco envia ao Congresso medidas para endurecer o regime ditatorial no Brasil
• 1965 - Ruben Sierra was born. Baseball player
• 1966 - Niall Quinn was born. Irish football player
• 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
• 1966 - Jacqueline Obradors was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Troy Shaw was born. English snooker player
• 1969 - Adrienne Armstrong was born. Wife of Billie Joe Armstrong
• 1970 - Darren Oliver was born. Baseball player.
• 1971 - Will Quillin was born. American Bodybuilder
• 1972 - Train derails in Mexico : a train carrying religious pilgrims derails near Saltillo, Mexico, killing more than 200 people and injuring hundreds of others.
• 1972 - Mark Schwarzer was born. Australian footballer
• 1973 - Sylvain Legwinski was born. French footballer.
• 1973 - Jeff Davis was born. American comedian.
• 1973 - Ioan Gruffudd was born. Welsh actor
• 1973 - Rebecca Lobo was born. American basketball player
• 1973 - The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War.
• 1973 - François Cevert dies (b. 1944). French race car driver.
• 1973 - Sidney Blackmer dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1974 - Walter Centeno was born. Costa Rican football player
• 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.
• 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.
• 1976 - Taylor Hicks was born. American Idol Season 5 Winner
• 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers were attacked by fascists while putting up posters. Miquel Grau, a 20-year old MCPV sympathizer, is killed.
• 1977 - Daniel Brière was born. National Hockey League player
• 1978 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.
• 1980 - Hattie Jacques dies (b. 1922). British comedy actress.
• 1980 - Jean Robic dies (b. 1921). French cyclist.
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat dies assassinated (b. 1918). President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili was born. Georgian football player
• 1981 - José Luis Perlaza was born. Ecuadorian football player
• 1982 - MC Lars was born. American hip-hop artist.
• 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.
• 1985 - Nelson Riddle dies (b. 1921). American bandleader.
• 1986 - Alexander Kronrod dies (b. 1921). Russian mathematician.
• 1989 - Bette Davis dies (b. 1908). American actress.
• 1989 - Alec Szczerbinski was born. American golfer.
• 1991 - Portuguese elections: Social-democrats get the majority / Em Portugal, eleições legislativas dão ao PSD maioria absoluta com 50,6% dos votos.
• 1991 - Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
• 1992 - Denholm Elliott dies (b. 1922). English actor.
• 1992 - Bill O'Reilly dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 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.
• 1996 - American singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw married after touring on their Spontaneous Combustion Tour.
• 1997 - Johnny Vander Meer dies (b. 1914). Baseball player.
• 1998 - Mark Belanger dies (b. 1944). Major League Baseball player.
• 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 and actress.
• 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 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
• 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
• 2002 - Claus von Amsberg dies (b. 1926). Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
• 2003 - Timothy Treadwell dies (b. 1957). Enviromentalist.
• 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)
• 2005 - The European Court of Human Rights rules the United Kingdom's ban on voting rights for prisoners is unlawful.
• 2006 - The Time Spiral block is released.
• RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith
• German-American Day (U.S. observance, since 1987)
• National Day or Victory Day in Egypt; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973