On this day in History - Oct. 06

• 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.
• 0869 – Ermentrude of Orléans dies (b. 0823). Consort of Charles the Bald.
  
• 0877 - Charles the Bald dies (b. 0823).
• 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 – John Caius was born (d. 1573). English physician.
  
• 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 - William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first German people to immigrate to America.
• 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.
• 1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was born (d. 1789).
• 1744 - James McGill was born (d. 1813). Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
• 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.
• 1762 - Francesco Manfredini dies (b. 1684). Italian composer.
• 1767 – Henri Christophe was born (d. 1820). King of Haiti.
  
• 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.
• 1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia dies (b. 1751).
• 1820 - Jenny Lind was born (d. 1887). Swedish soprano.
• 1829 - Pierre Derbigny dies (b. 1769). Governor of Louisiana.
• 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 mathematician.
• 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.
• 1874 – Frank G. Allen was born (d. 1950). 51^st Governor of Massachusetts.
  
• 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.
• 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 – Jackie Saunders was born (d. 1954). American silent film actress.
  
• 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).
• 1895 – Caroline Gordon was born (d. 1981). American writer and critic.
  
• 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 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
• 1906 - Janet Gaynor was born (d. 1984). American actress.
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1908 - Carole Lombard was born (d. 1942). American actress.
• 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev was born (d. 1989). Russian mathematician.
• 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 – Perkins Bass was born. American politician.
• 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 - Alice Timander was born (d. 2007). Swedish dentist.
• 1915 - Carolyn Goodman was born (d. 2007). American psychologist and civil rights activist.
• 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.
• 1918 - André Pilette was born (d. 1993). Belgian racing driver.
• 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 – Joseph Lowery was born. American Civil rights movement leader.
• 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis was born (d. 1997). Russian mathematician.
• 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul.
• 1922 - Joe Frazier was born. American baseball player.
• 1922 - Francisco Rodrigues Neto was born in Paderne, Albufeira. Portuguese painter.
  
• 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.
• 1927 – Bill King was born (d. 2005). American sports broadcaster.
  
• 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 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was born (d. 2004). Russian astronomer.
• 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi was born. Italian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1935 - Bruno Sammartino was born. Italian strongman.
• 1935 – Charito Solis was born (d, 1998). Filipino actress.
  
• 1936 - Anna Quayle was born. English actress (Mistress Pamela).
• 1938 - Serge Nubret was born. French bodybuilder.
• 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
• 1939 - John LaFalce was born. American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives.
• 1940 - Altemar Dutra was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1941 - Jorge Macedo was born in Malanje (d. 2009). Angolan writer.
  
• 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 born (d. 1977). Brazilian 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).
• 1945 – Ivan Graziani was born (d. 1997). Italian singer-songwriter.
  
• 1945 - Leonardo Conti dies (b. 1900). Nazi physician.
• 1946 – Eddie Villanueva was born. JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network.
• 1946 - Lloyd Doggett was born. American politician.
• 1946 - Tony Greig was born. South African-born cricketer.
• 1946 – Vinod Khanna was born. Indian actor.
• 1946 - Johnny O'Keefe dies (b. 1935). Australian singer.
• 1947 - Patxi Andíon 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 – Kevin Cronin was born. American musician (REO Speedwagon).
• 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 – Darrell M. West was born. American political scientist.
• 1954 - David Hidalgo was born. American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys).
• 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.
• 1956 – Kathleen Webb was born. American comic book writer and artist.
• 1958 – Joseph Finder was born. American novelist.
• 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 - Brian Higgins was born. American politician, Member of US House of Representatives.
• 1959 – Dennis Ray Boyd was born. American baseball player.
• 1959 - Ivo Silva was born in Lisbon. Portuguese painter.
• 1959 - José Vicente Lopes was born in Mindelo, São Vicente. Cape Verdian journalist and writer.
  
• 1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr. was born. American bowler and horsehoes champion.
• 1959 - Bernard Berenson dies (b. 1865). American art historian.
• 1962 - Tod Browning dies (b. 1880). American film director.
• 1962 - Rich Yett was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Edith Piaf marries Hairdresser.
• 1963 - Chip Foose was born. Automobile Customizer.
• 1963 - Elisabeth Shue was born. American film actress.
• 1963 - Jsu Garcia was born. American actor.
• 1964 – Matthew Sweet was born. American musician.
• 1964 – Ricky Berry was born (d. 1989). American basketball player.
  
• 1965 - Brasil: Presidente Castelo Branco envia ao Congresso medidas para endurecer o regime ditatorial no Brasil.
• 1965 - Ruben Sierra was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
• 1966 - Jacqueline Obradors was born. American actress.
• 1966 - Niall Quinn was born. Irish footballer.
• 1967 – Kennet Andersson was born. Former Swedish footballer.
• 1967 - Svend Karlsen was born. Norwegian strongman.
• 1968 - Phyllis Nicolson dies (b. 1917). British mathematican.
• 1969 - Adrienne Armstrong was born. Wife of Billie Joe Armstrong.
• 1969 - Troy Shaw was born. English snooker player.
• 1970 - Amy Jo Johnson was born. American actress and singer.
• 1970 - Darren Oliver was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Alan Stubbs was born. English footballer.
• 1971 - Lola Dueñas was born. Spanish actress.
• 1971 - Phil Bennett was born. British racing driver.
• 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 – Anders Iwers was born. Swedish musician.
• 1972 – Ko So-young was born. South Korean actress.
• 1972 - Mark Schwarzer was born. Australian footballer.
• 1972 - Ryu Shi-won was born. Korean actor and singer.
• 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 – Ioan Gruffudd was born. Welsh actor.
• 1973 - Jeff Davis was born. American comedian.
• 1973 - Rebecca Lobo was born. American basketball player.
• 1973 – Sylvain Legwinski was born. French footballer.
• 1973 – Dennis Price dies (b. 1915). English actor.
  
• 1973 - François Cevert dies (b. 1944). French race car driver.
• 1973 - Sidney Blackmer dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1974 - Jeremy Sisto was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Walter Centeno was born. Costa Rican football player.
• 1974 - Helmuth Koinigg dies (b. 1948). Austrian Formula One driver.
• 1975 – Reon King was born. West Indian cricketer from Guyana.
• 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.
• 1976 - Barbie Hsu was born. Taiwanese actress and singer.
• 1976 - Gilbert Ryle dies (b. 1900). British philosopher.
• 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 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
• 1977 - Daniel Brière was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1977 – Melinda Doolittle was born. American singer and recording artist.
• 1977 – Shimon Gershon was porn. Israeli footballer.
• 1977 – Vladimir Manchev was born. Bulgarian footballer.
• 1977 – Wes Ramsey was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.
• 1978 – Ricky Hatton was born. English boxer.
• 1978 - Samara Felippo was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1979 – David Di Tommaso was born (d. 2005). French footballer.
  
• 1979 – Lex Shrapnel was born. English actor.
• 1979 – Richard Seymour was born. American football player.
• 1980 - Abdoulaye Méïté was born. French footballer.
• 1980 - Hattie Jacques dies (b. 1922). British comedy actress.
• 1980 - Jean Robic dies (b. 1921). French cyclist.
• 1981 - José Luis Perlaza was born. Ecuadorian football player.
• 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili was born. Georgian football player.
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat dies assassinated (b. 1918). President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1982 - MC Lars was born. American hip-hop artist.
• 1982 – Michael Arden was born. American actor.
• 1982 – William Butler was born.American musician and member of Arcade Fire
• 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke dies (b. 1921). Archbishop of New York.
• 1984 – Joanna Pacitti was born. American actress and singer.
• 1984 – Morne Morkel was born. South African cricketer.
• 1985 - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• 1985 - Portugal: Líder do Partido Popular, Lucas Pires, apresenta sua demissão.
• 1985 - Alain Prost is world champion in Formula 1.
• 1985 – Sylvia Fowles was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Nelson Riddle dies (b. 1921). American bandleader.
• 1986 – Mohammad Shukri was born. Malaysian cricketer.
• 1986 – Olivia Thirlby was born. American actress.
• 1986 – Tereza Kerndlová was born. Czech singer.
• 1986 - Alexander Kronrod dies (b. 1921). Russian mathematician.
• 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
• 1988 - David Moore was born. Top Flight D-Moe.
• 1988 - Kayky Brito was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1988 - Maki Horikita was born. Japanese model and actress.
• 1989 - Bette Davis dies (b. 1908). American actress.
• 1989 - Alec Szczerbinski was born. American golfer.
• 1989 - Bette Davis dies (b. 1908). American actress.
• 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 - Rhyon Nicole Brown was born. American actress.
• 1992 - Em Portugal, dá-se o início das emissões da SIC, a primeira estação privada de televisão.
• 1992 - Bill O'Reilly dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 1992 - Denholm Elliott dies (b. 1922). English actor.
• 1993 - Agnes de Mille dies (b. 1905). American dancer and choreographer.
• 1993 - Cyril Cusack dies. Irish actor.
• 1993 - Larry Walters dies (b. 1949). American "lawn chair" pilot.
• 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.
• 1995 – Jessica Lunsford was born (d. 2005). American kidnapping victim.
  
• 1995 – Benoît Chamoux dies (b. 1961). French climber.
  
• 1996 - American singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw married after touring on their Spontaneous Combustion Tour.
• 1997 - Johnny Vander Meer dies (b. 1914). American 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).
• 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink was born. German actress and singer.
• 1998 - Mark Belanger dies (b. 1944). American baseball player.
• 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.
• 1999 - Amália Rodrigues dies in Lisbon (b. 1920). Portuguese fado singer and actress.
• 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon dies (b. 1937). Professional wrestler/commentator.
• 2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
• 2000 - Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
• 2000 - Canonização de Josemaría Escrivá, fundador da Opus Dei.
• 2000 – Amanda and Rachel Pace were born. American actresses.
• 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.
• 2001 – Arne Harris dies (b. 1934). American television sports director.
  
• 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 - 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).
• 2003 - Timothy Treadwell dies (b. 1957). American environmentalist.
• 2004 – Marvin Santiago dies (b. 1947). Puerto Rican salsa singer.
  
• 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.
• 2006 - Buck O'Neil dies (b. 1911). American baseball player.
• 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna dies (b. 1940). Argentinian film director.
• 2006 - Puck Brouwer dies (b. 1930). Dutch athlete.
• 2006 - Wilson Tucker dies (b. 1914). American writer.
• 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
• 2007 - Bud Ekins dies (b. 1930). American stuntman.
• 2008 – Kim Ji-hoo dies (b. 1985). South Korean actor and model.
• RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith.
• Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973.
• U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987.
• Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005).
• Ireland - Ivy Day commemorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
• French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Australia - Labour Day.