October 6 

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.

Events:

• 891 - Formosus becomes Pope
• 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, is premiered in Florence
• 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
• 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie
• 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes President of China
• 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in America
• 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
• 1973 - The Yom Kippur War begins

Births:

• 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France
• 1820 - Jenny Lind, singer
• 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (+ 1916)
• 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor (+ 1914)
• 1868 - George Horace Lorimer[?], editor of the Saturday Evening Post[?] (+ 1937)
• 1886 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (+ 1960)
• 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (+ 1965)
• 1905 - Helen Wills Moody[?], American tennis player (+ 1998)
• 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (+ 1984)
• 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (+ 1942)
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition. (+ 2002)
• 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (+ 2000)
• 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
• 1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician
• 1950 - David Brin, science fiction author
• 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (+1985)

Deaths:

• 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British author
• 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)
• 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress
• 1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor
• 1993 - Agnes de Mille[?], dancer, choreographer
• 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
• 2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

Holidays:

October 5 - October 7 - September 6 - November 6 - more historical anniversaries

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