The 6t o October is the 279t day o the year (280t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 86 days bidin.

• 1762 - Seiven Years' War: The Battle o Manila results in the Breetish takin the ceety frae the Spaingie until the end o the war.
• 1889 - First successfu climb o Kilimanjaro.
• 1908 - Austrick-Hungary annexes Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
• 1928 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman o the Republic o Cheenae.
• 1939 - Warld War II: The last Pols troops capitulate tae the Wehrmacht.
• 1973 - Egyp launches a coordinatit attack on Sirie an Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
• 1979 - Pape John Paul II visits the White House.
• 1981 - Preses o Egyp Anwar Sadat is assassinatit at a militar parade.
• 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.
• 1993 - Michael Jordan propales his retirement frae basketbaw.
• 1995 - 51 Pegasi is discovered, as the first kent starn ither than the Sun tae hae a planet (51 Pegasi b) orbitin aroond it.
• 2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes Prime meenister o Swaden.
• 2008 - Then-Prime meenister o Iceland Geir Haarde announces the near-bankruptcy o his kintra.
• 2017 - The Internaitional Campaign tae Abolish Nuclear Wappens wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

• 1732 - John Broadwood, Scots pianae manufacturer (d. 1812)
• 1773 - John MacCulloch, Scots geologist (d. 1835)
• 1773 - Louis Philippe I, Keeng o Fraunce (d. 1850)
• 1808 - Frederick VII o Denmark (d. 1863)
• 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swadish soprano an actress (d. 1887)
• 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathemateecian (d. 1916)
• 1846 - George Westinghouse, American inventor (d. 1914)
• 1869 - Jack Bell, Scots fitbawer (d. ?)
• 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss-French airchitect (d. 1965)
• 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
• 1903 - Ernest Walton, Erse pheesicist (d. 1995)
• 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
• 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norse ethnographer an splorer (d. 2002)
• 1929 - Doug Winton, Scots fitbawer (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, Preses o Sirie (d. 2000)
• 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer an commentator (d. 2015)
• 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astropheesicist (d. 2018)
• 1937 - Mario Capecchi, Italian-American molecular geneticist
• 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northren Erse politeecian
• 1960 - Yves Leterme, Belgian politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Belgium
• 1964 - Mark Field, Inglis politeecian
• 1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian fitbawer
• 1978 - Ricky Hatton, Inglis boxer
• 1982 - Levon Aronian, Armenie chess player

• 877 - Charles the Bald, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 823)
• 1644 - Elisabeth o Fraunce (b. 1602)
• 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, Inglis poet (b. 1809)
• 1907 - David Masson, Scots academic, leeterar creetic an historian (b. 1822)
• 1912 - Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politeecian, Prime meenister o Belgium (b. 1829)
• 1955 - Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness, Scots lawer an juidge (b. 1868)
• 1981 - Anwar Sadat, Preses o Egyp (b. 1918)
• 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2017 - Ralphie May, American actor an vyce airtist (b. 1972)
• 2017 - Ian McNeill, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)
• 2020 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist (Van Halen) (b. 1955)

• Victory Day (Egyp)
• 6 October is the eat day o the follaein saunts, an mairtyrs:

St. Faith

Bl. Marie Rose Dorocher

St. Bruno

Bl. Adalbero

St. Aurea

St. Sagar

St. Ceollach

St.Epiphania

St. Francis Trung

St. Magnus

St. Maria Francesca Gallo

St. Nicetas

Mairytrs o Trier

St. Pardulphus

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