SomeFacts | October 6

On this day - October 6

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

Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues ...

23 — Rebels decapitate Wang Mang , only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, ...

404 — Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her ...

618 — Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats ...

1539 — Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee ...

1600 — Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première ...

1683 — Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first ...

1762 — Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts ...

1789 — French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his ...

1810 — A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town ...

1849 — The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian ...

1854 — In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to ...

1884 — The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode ...

1898 — Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, ...

1903 — The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

1908 — The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally ...

1910 — Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for ...

1915 — World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the ...

1915 — World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central ...

1920 — Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is ...

1923 — The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

1927 — Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent ...

1934 — Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government ...

1939 — World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the ...

1942 — World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their ...

1943 — World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a ...

1944 — World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter ...

1973 — Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, ...

1976 — Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries ...

1976 — Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the ...

1976 — Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, ...

1977 — The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, ...

1979 — Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White ...

1981 — NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off ...

1981 — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic ...

1985 — Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in ...

1987 — Fiji becomes a republic.

1990 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the ...

1995 — The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is ...

2007 — Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation ...

2010 — Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

2018 — The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme ...

2022 — Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

2025 — The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving ...