History Events on October 06

The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.

#51_Pegasi_b

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

#High_Court_of_Australia

World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.

#World_War_II

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

#Germantown,_Philadelphia

Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army.

#Cimbrian_War

Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.

#Anhaica

Third Mithridatic War: Forces of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.

#Battle_of_Tigranocerta

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

#Cubana_de_Aviación_Flight_455

In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

#Great_fire_of_Newcastle_and_Gateshead

Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.

#Wang_Mang

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

#French_Revolution

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

#The_Jazz_Singer

The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

#Turkish_National_Movement

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.

#Jason_Lewis_(adventurer)

The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

#Mikoyan_MiG-29

The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

#Naval_War_College

Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.

#Battle_of_Yanshi

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

#Eleftherios_Venizelos

Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

#Yom_Kippur_War

Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

#Seven_Years'_War

Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

#Euridice_(Peri)

Fiji becomes a republic.

#Fiji

Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

#Hua_Guofeng

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

#Anwar_Sadat

Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

#Instagram

World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.

#Battle_of_the_Dukla_Pass

American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh and last pregnancy.

#Byzantine_Empire

World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.

#Actions_along_the_Matanikau

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

#The_13_Martyrs_of_Arad

Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.

World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.

The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.