October 6

Historic Events

2025

The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students. ›

2022

Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ›

2018

The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process. ›

2010

Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded. ›

2007

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. ›

1995

The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered. ›

1990

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions. ›

1987

Fiji becomes a republic. ›

1985

Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. ›

1981

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists. ›

1981

NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board. ›

1979

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

1977

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

1976

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group. ›

1976

Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China. ›

1976

Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu. ›

1973

Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War. ›

1944

World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass. ›

1943

World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece. ›

1942

World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal. ›

1939

World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland. ›

1934

Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance. ›

1927

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

1923

The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople. ›

1920

Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina. ›

1915

World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen. ›

1915

World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers. ›

1910

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times. ›

1908

The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. ›

1903

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

1898

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music. ›

1884

The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island. ›

1854

In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. ›

1849

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

1810

A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland. ›

1789

French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace. ›

1777

American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River. ›

1762

Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it. ›

1683

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America. ›

1600

Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. ›

1539

Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. ›

618

Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi. ›

404

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy. ›

23

Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion. ›

69 BC

Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia. ›

105 BC

Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic ›