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October 6 in History
2010
Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cinncinnati Reds
2007
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
2002
The French oil tanker ''Limburg ''is bombed off Yemen.
2000
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
1995
51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1987
Fiji becomes a republic.
1985
PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1979
Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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.
1976
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's 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.
1973
Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
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).
1939
World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
1928
1927
Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1923
The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1908
Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1889
Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1884
The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1854
The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1849
The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1789
French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 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.
1683
William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1600
Jacopo Peri's ''Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.