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06 October, 2007
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
06 October, 2002
The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
06 October, 2000
Slobodan Miloševic resigns.
06 October, 1995
51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
06 October, 1987
Fiji becomes a republic.
06 October, 1985
PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
06 October, 1981
Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
06 October, 1977
In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
06 October, 1976
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed. New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the Peoples Republic of China. Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
06 October, 1973
The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War.
06 October, 1966
LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
06 October, 1955
A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people
06 October, 1945
Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
06 October, 1939
Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
06 October, 1928
Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
06 October, 1927
Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
06 October, 1922
The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
06 October, 1921
International PEN is founded in London.
06 October, 1908
Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
06 October, 1906
The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
06 October, 1903
The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
06 October, 1898
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
06 October, 1889
Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
06 October, 1884
The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
06 October, 1854
The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
06 October, 1849
The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
06 October, 1789
French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
06 October, 1762
Seven Years War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
06 October, 1600
Jacopo Peris Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
06 October, 1582
Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

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