Events for October 6
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2018 – The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
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.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
2025 – The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students.
1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
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.
1915 – World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1923 – The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
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.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1620 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth suffers a defeat against the Ottoman Empire in the battle of Cecora after a heroic defense over several days and the death of their commander Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski.
1990 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.
1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
Notable Births & Deaths for October 6
1990 – Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1990 – Scarlett Byrne, English actress
2014 – Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944)
2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress (born 1928)
2013 – Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917)
1993 – Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player
2004 – Bronny James, American basketball player
2018 – Scott Wilson, American actor (born 1942)
2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976)
2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922)
2013 – Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)
2014 – Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (born 1933)
2014 – Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (born 1944)
1989 – Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
2017 – Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1972)
2019 – Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939)
2000 – Kyle Pitts, American football player
1996 – Kevin Diks, Indonesian footballer
2020 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2024 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)
2024 – Dave Hobson, American politician (born 1936)
1989 – Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player
2004 – Hanni, Australian singer
2001 – Hitomi Honda, Japanese singer based in South Korea
2015 – Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926)
2013 – Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)
1994 – Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter
1993 – Adam Gemili, English sprinter
1999 – Trevor Lawrence, American football player
2015 – Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923)
2018 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)
2020 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)
2002 – Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player
1990 – Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player
2000 – Jazz Jennings, American internet personality
2014 – Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (born 1929)
1993 – Jourdan Miller, American fashion model
2017 – David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (born 1952)
2019 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (born 1936)
2000 – Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer
1990 – Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (died 2014)
1997 – Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
1992 – Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1994 – Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player
2013 – Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)
1992 – Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player
2019 – Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931)
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{ "info":"OnThisDay API", "date":"April_20", "updated":"1615972324",
"data":{
"Events":[
{
"text":"1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.[1]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1303\" title=\"1303\">1303</a> – The <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapienza_University_of_Rome\" title=\"Sapienza University of Rome\">Sapienza University of Rome</a> is instituted by a <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull\" title=\"Papal bull\">bull</a> of <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII\" title=\"Pope Boniface VIII\">Pope Boniface VIII</a>."
},
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],
"Births":[
{
"text":"1494 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)[8]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1494\" title=\"1494\">1494</a> – <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Agricola\" title=\"Johannes Agricola\">Johannes Agricola</a>, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)"
},
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],
"Deaths":[
{
"text":"689 – Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)[21]",
"html":"<a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/689\" title=\"689\">689</a> – <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A6dwalla_of_Wessex\" title=\"Cædwalla of Wessex\">Cædwalla</a>, king of <a href=\"https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex\" title=\"Wessex\">Wessex</a> (b. 659)" },
//.. MORE DATA ..//
}
]
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