October 6 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.
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.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar , this day is skipped in Italy , Poland , Portugal and Spain .
1600 - Jacopo Peri 's Euridice opera , premieres in Florence , signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
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.
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 started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport .
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture .
1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston .
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 : 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 ).
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 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.
1976 - 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 .
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 , fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one 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.
1987 - Fiji becomes a republic .
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.
2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg Yemen .
2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized .
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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 , English patron of the theater (d. 1624 )
1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure , French soldier (d. 1690 )
1716 - George Montague-Dunk , English statesman (d. 1771 )
1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789 )
1744 - James McGill , Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813 )
1767 - Henri Christophe , king of Haiti (d. 1820 )
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 )
1915 - Carolyn Goodman , American psychologist and civil rights activist (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 )
1927 - Bill King , American sports broadcaster (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
1947 - Patxi Andión , Spanish singer-songwriter
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 )
1951 - Kevin Cronin , American musician (REO Speedwagon )
1952 - Ayten Mutlu , Turkish poet and writer
1953 - Klaas Bruinsma , Dutch drug lord (d. 1991 )
1954 - David Hidalgo , American musician (Los Lobos , Latin Playboys )
1955 - Tony Dungy , American football coach
1959 - Brian Higgins , American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1959 - Dennis Ray Boyd , American baseball player
1962 - Rich Yett , baseball player
1963 - Elisabeth Shue , American film actress
1963 - Chip Foose , American automobile customizer
1963 - Jsu Garcia , American actor
1964 - Matthew Sweet , American musician
1965 - Ruben Sierra , Puerto Rican baseball player
1966 - Niall Quinn , Irish footballer
1966 - Jacqueline Obradors , American actress
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
1977 - Vladimir Manchev , Bulgarian footballer
1978 - Ricky Hatton MBE , British boxer
1979 - David Di Tommaso , French footballer (d. 2005 )
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 - Morgan Duggan , Radd Australian
1992 - Rhyon Nicole Brown , American actress
1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink , German actress and singer
877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823 )
1014 - Samuil , Emperor (Tsar) of the First Bulgarian Empire (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 , English statesman (b. 1652 )
1762 - Francesco Manfredini , Italian composer (b. 1684 )
1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV , king of Sardinia (b. 1751 )
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 )
1992 - Bill O'Reilly , Australian cricketer (b. 1902 )
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 )
2007 - Bud Ekins , American stuntman (b. 1930 )
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