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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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Events

★ 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.

★ 68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.

★ 891 - Formosus becomes Pope.

★ 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

★ 1600 - Jacopo Peri's ''Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence, signifying for many the beginning of the Baroque Period

★ 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

★ 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

★ 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was ignited a little after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds of injured.

★ 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

★ 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

★ 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

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

★ 1906 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.

★ 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

★ 1921 - International PEN is founded in London.

★ 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul

★ 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

★ 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

★ 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

★ 1945 - Baseball: Bill 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).

★ 1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people

★ 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.

★ 1973 - The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War.

★ 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Castrist militants, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.

★ 1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

★ 1976 - 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.

★ 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers were attacked by fascists while putting up posters. Miquel Grau, a 20-year old MCPV sympathizer, is killed.

★ 1977 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

★ 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.

★ 1985 - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

★ 1995 - 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

★ 2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns.

★ 2002 - The French oil tanker ''Limburg ''is bombed off Yemen.

★ 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.

Births

★ 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)

★ 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)

★ 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)

★ 1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)

★ 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)

★ 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)

★ 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)

★ 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)

★ 1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)

★ 1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)

★ 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)

★ 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)

★ 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)

★ 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)

★ 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)

★ 1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)

★ 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)

★ 1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)

★ 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)

★ 1876 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)

★ 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)

★ 1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)

★ 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)

★ 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)

★ 1895 - Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)

★ 1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)

★ 1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

★ 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)

★ 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)

★ 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

★ 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)

★ 1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)

★ 1912 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)

★ 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)

★ 1915 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)

★ 1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)

★ 1918 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)

★ 1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)

★ 1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)

★ 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)

★ 1922 - Joe Frazier, American baseball player

★ 1925 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)

★ 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)

★ 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer

★ 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)

★ 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

★ 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler

★ 1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder

★ 1939 - John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives

★ 1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress

★ 1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer

★ 1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor

★ 1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter

★ 1944 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)

★ 1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician

★ 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer

★ 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician

★ 1950 - David Brin, American author

★ 1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)

★ 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)

★ 1952 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer

★ 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)

★ 1955 - Tony Dungy, American football coach

★ 1959 - Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives

★ 1962 - Rich Yett, baseball player

★ 1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress

★ 1963 - Chip Foose, American automobile customizer

★ 1963 - Jsu Garcia, American actor

★ 1965 - Ruben Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player

★ 1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer

★ 1967 - Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman

★ 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player

★ 1970 - Darren Oliver, American baseball player

★ 1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer

★ 1971 - Phil Bennett, British racing driver

★ 1971 - Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress

★ 1971 - Alan Stubbs, English footballer

★ 1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian soccer player

★ 1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer

★ 1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer

★ 1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian

★ 1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor

★ 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player

★ 1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor

★ 1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer

★ 1976 - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer

★ 1977 - Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1980 - Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer

★ 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

★ 1981 - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer

★ 1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist

★ 1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress

★ 1992 - Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress, and Jonathan Sessa, American Sketch comedian, writer, filmmaker.

★ 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

Deaths

★ 1014 - Samuil, Tsar of Macedonia (b. 958)

★ 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order

★ 1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)

★ 1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)

★ 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer

★ 1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)

★ 1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer

★ 1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru

★ 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)

★ 1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)

★ 1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)

★ 1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)

★ 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)

★ 1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)

★ 1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)

★ 1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)

★ 1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)

★ 1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)

★ 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) (b. 1860)

★ 1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)

★ 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)

★ 1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematican (b. 1917)

★ 1973 - François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)

★ 1973 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

★ 1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)

★ 1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)

★ 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)

★ 1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)

★ 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)

★ 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)

★ 1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)

★ 1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)

★ 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

★ 1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)

★ 1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)

★ 1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)

★ 1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)

★ 1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)

★ 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)

★ 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)

★ 2002 - Claus von Amsberg, Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)

★ 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)

★ 2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)

★ 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)

★ 2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)

★ 2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

★ RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith

★ Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

★ Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973.

★ U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987

★ Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)

★ Ireland - Ivy Day commemorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.

★ French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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