October 06

Sunday 06, 2002:

Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.

Saturday 06, 2001:

The then most-attended ice hockey game in history, between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, before a crowd of 74,554. In 2004, that record was shattered in a historic outdoor regular season match in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between the Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens.

Friday 06, 2000:

Slobodan Milo?evi? resigns.

Tuesday 06, 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).

Friday 06, 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.

Wednesday 06, 1993:

Michael Jordan makes his first retirement from the NBA.

Tuesday 06, 1981:

Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.

Friday 06, 1978:

Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married.

Wednesday 06, 1976:

Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom are massacred by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.

Saturday 06, 1973:

The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.

Thursday 06, 1966:

LSD is declared illegal in the United States.

Thursday 06, 1955:

A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people

Saturday 06, 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).

Friday 06, 1939:

Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

Saturday 06, 1928:

Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

Thursday 06, 1927:

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

Friday 06, 1922:

The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul

Thursday 06, 1921:

International PEN is founded in London.

Tuesday 06, 1908:

Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tuesday 06, 1903:

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Sunday 06, 1889:

Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

Monday 06, 1884:

The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

Saturday 06, 1849:

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

Friday 06, 1600:

Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.

Wednesday 06, 1582:

Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

Saturday 06, 891:

Formosus becomes Pope.

Wednesday 06, -68:

Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.

Sunday 06, -105:

Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus.

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