Notable Historical Events on October 6th
October 6th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
105 |
Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. |
68 |
Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia. |
BC AD | |
891 |
Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1111 |
Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders |
1499 |
French King Louis XII occupies Milan |
1567 |
Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands |
1683 |
13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila) |
1689 |
Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII |
1762 |
British troops occupy Manila, Philippines |
1781 |
Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of American Revolutionary War |
1783 |
Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock |
1789 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October |
1799 |
Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army |
1811 |
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte visits Utrecht |
1849 |
The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. |
1853 |
4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio |
1854 |
The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. |
1857 |
American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) |
1861 |
Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert |
1861 |
Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg |
1863 |
Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas |
1863 |
Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn |
1866 |
1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) |
1869 |
John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer" premieres |
1871 |
Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour |
1876 |
American Library Association organized in Philadelphia |
1882 |
1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0 |
1884 |
Naval War College forms in Newport RI |
1886 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG) |
1889 |
Moulin Rogue opens in Paris |
1889 |
Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture |
1890 |
Mormon Church outlaws polygamy |
1893 |
Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat |
1896 |
Jose Rizal was arrested en route to Cuba via Spain and was imprisoned in Barcelona |
1898 |
Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic |
1898 |
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. |
1900 |
Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) |
1903 |
The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. |
1906 |
The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time. |
1908 |
Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina |
1908 |
Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant |
1908 |
Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season |
1910 |
Braves beat Phillies 20-7 |
1911 |
Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot |
1911 |
Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game |
1912 |
Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season |
1914 |
The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia |
1918 |
US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die |
1919 |
Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria |
1919 |
White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series |
1920 |
1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln |
1921 |
Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962) |
1921 |
Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0 |
1921 |
International PEN is founded in London. |
1922 |
Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia |
1922 |
The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul |
1923 |
1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies) |
1923 |
2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms |
1923 |
US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record) |
1923 |
USSR adopts experimental calendar |
1925 |
Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested |
1926 |
Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5 |
1927 |
"Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) |
1928 |
11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore |
1928 |
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China |
1928 |
Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail |
1929 |
12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles |
1931 |
Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists) |
1935 |
Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia |
1935 |
Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches |
1936 |
NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series |
1938 |
Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss |
1939 |
Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain |
1939 |
Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem |
1939 |
Last Polish army is defeated in World War II. |
1940 |
Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF |
1941 |
German army occupies Briansk, USSR |
1941 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series |
1942 |
Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram |
1943 |
Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island |
1943 |
Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution" |
1944 |
Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel |
1944 |
Canadians free Austria |
1944 |
Royal Ducth Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks U168 at Java |
1944 |
Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia |
1945 |
Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) |
1945 |
Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge |
1945 |
Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs |
1946 |
90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
1946 |
US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine |
1947 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series |
1948 |
"Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances |
1948 |
KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. |
1948 |
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya. |
1949 |
Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine |
1949 |
US Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO) |
1951 |
Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb |
1952 |
Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running) |
1953 |
WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad |
1956 |
Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine |
1957 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1957 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open |
1958 |
US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains record 60 days under pole |
1959 |
Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA) |
1959 |
Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon |
1961 |
JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show" |
1963 |
LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series |
1964 |
"Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1965 |
Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" |
1965 |
William Goodhart's "Generation" premieres in NYC |
1966 |
Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout |
1966 |
Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor |
1966 |
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow. |
1967 |
Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1969 |
WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico |
1972 |
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin |
1972 |
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin (SF) office in Dublin |
1973 |
Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel |
1974 |
"Mack & Mabel" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances |
1974 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic |
1976 |
"Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing |
1976 |
Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack |
1976 |
John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent |
1976 |
US Pres Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe" |
1976 |
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed. |
1977 |
DL Coburns "Gin Game" premieres in NYC |
1977 |
Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game |
1977 |
In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. |
1978 |
Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago) |
1978 |
Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person |
1978 |
Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls" |
1978 |
Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5 |
1979 |
Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9" |
1979 |
Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House |
1980 |
Guyana adopts constitution |
1980 |
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) sentenced to 3 months inprisonment on assault charges |
1982 |
Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals |
1982 |
Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die |
1983 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1983 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
1983 |
NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open |
1985 |
Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia |
1985 |
Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0 |
1985 |
PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. |
1986 |
Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
1987 |
Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic |
1988 |
Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant |
1990 |
US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit |
1990 |
Solar Polar Orbiter 'Ulysses' launched |
1991 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship |
1991 |
NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies |
1991 |
Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers) |
1993 |
Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time |
1994 |
-9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria |
1994 |
Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa |
1995 |
BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels |
1995 |
Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit |
1995 |
51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it. |
1996 |
Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate |
1996 |
Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1996 |
Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed |
1996 |
NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals |
2000 |
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns. |
2002 |
The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. |
2002 |
Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized. |
2007 |
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. |
2010 |
Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds |
2012 |
Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment |
2012 |
The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final |
2013 |
53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt |
2014 |
John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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