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.

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