October 6

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 6. From 1900 until now. October 6 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Stephen Arroyo (1946), Carole Lombard (1908) and Elisabeth Shue (1963). Several movies were released around October 6 over the years, such as Limelight in 1952 directed by Charles Chaplin and The Devil's Advocate in 1997 directed by Taylor Hackford.
But much more happened on October 6 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)
Egypt - National Day or Victory Day; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973
U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987; Mad Hatter Day
French Republican Calendar - �ne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Ireland - Ivy Day, formerly honoring the Irish revolutionary Padraig Pearse, commemmorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith
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Events

2018 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Defense Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman says that Israel will reduce the fishing zone off the Gaza Strip from 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) to 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) as a reaction to the weekly Gaza border protests. Three Palestinians were killed in yesterday's protest, in which over 20,000 protestors took part. (Al Jazeera)
2017 According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Russian airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians, including three children, as they cross the Euphrates river near the ISIL-held city of Mayadin in eastern Syria while fleeing the village of Mahkan. (TRT World)
2016 Somali Civil War (2009–present): An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths. (Reuters), (Capital FM Kenya)
2015 In the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sanaa, at least seven people are killed following a suicide-bomb attack on the al-Nour mosque. (Reuters)
2014 ISIL prepares to establish itself in Libya and reports emerge that they are already in the city of Derna. (Al Arabiya)
2013 Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):: At least 53 people are killed during clashes between supporters and opponents of former president Mohamed Morsi on the 40th anniversary of Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal in 1973. (Reuters) (Euronews)
2012 The South Korean Ministry of National Defense states that a North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea after killing two of his superiors. (AP via The Union Democrat)
2011 Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. (Nobel Foundation) (The Guardian) (The Washington Post)
2010 Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds
2009 An "industry-wide phishing scheme" targets sites such as Google, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL, with passwords posted online and more than a quarter of a million accounts at risk. (BBC) (The Wall Street Journal) (The Guardian)
2008 Another earthquake of magnitude 6.4, with two magnitude-5 aftershocks, hits Damxung, Tibet, People's Republic of China, with conflicting casualty reports anywhere from 9 to 30 deaths. (USGS) (CNN)
2007 A collision between a train and a bus kills at least 28 people and injures over 70 in Cuba's eastern Granma province. (CNN via AP)
2006 Hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes releasing chlorine gas, resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents.
2005 Five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group begun in Uganda, are targeted by the first arrest warrants to be issued by the International Criminal Court. (BBC)
2004 Appearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group announces that the group found no evidence that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had produced any weapons of mass destruction since 1991, when UN sanctions were imposed. This directly contradicts the main argument used by the George W. Bush administration for invading Iraq in 2003. (CNN) (BBC)
2003 2004 U.S. Democratic Primaries: Senator Bob Graham announces on ''Larry King Live'' that he is ending his 2004 presidential campaign.
2002 The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resigns.
1998 Matthew Shepard is beaten and left to die in a cornfield in Laramie, Wyoming.
1996 Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1995 Colorodo Avalanche (former Quebec Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1994 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black Mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1993 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
1988 Oakland Athletics sweep Boston Red Sox in four games for American League pennant.
1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a Republic
1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1985 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1983 New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea Stadium for the Meadowlands Coliseum.
1980 Guyana adopts constitution
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
1977 DL Coburns Gin Game, premieres in New York City
1976 Gang of Four arrested in Beijing
1974 Mack & Mabel, opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico.
1969 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, Maryland (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies.
1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1965 Supremes release I Hear a Symphony
1964 Cambridge Circus opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on Judy Garland Show
1962 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1955 LSD made illegal in US
1953 WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to ten years and $10,000 fine.
1948 Polonaise opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1947 New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series.
1946 President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1944 Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1941 German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in San Francisco
1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1938 Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1936 New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to two in 33rd World Series.
1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1934 Catalonian separatists rebel in Spain.
1931 Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
1929 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest Country Club - Los Angeles
1928 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms Country Club - Baltimore
1927 Jazz Singer, 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1926 Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a world series game, New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Cardinals 10-5 (World Series #23).
1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1922 Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
1921 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. NYC (demolished 1962)
1919 Stambuliski becomes Premier of Bulgaria
1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die
1917 The US Trading with the Enemy Act becomes law, giving the US President authority to ban holding of gold and silver coins and other objects.
1912 Pirates Owen Chief Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1910 Braves beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-7.
1908 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
1906 The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
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