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Events on the 6th of October in history

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06 Oct 2023 Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
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06 Oct 2069 Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
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06 Oct 0105 Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
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06 Oct 0404 Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
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06 Oct 0891 Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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06 Oct 1111 Boudouin VII becomes Earl of Flanders
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06 Oct 1499 French King Louis XII occupies Milan
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06 Oct 1539 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
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06 Oct 1567 Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of the Netherlands
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06 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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06 Oct 1600 Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
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06 Oct 1683 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Philadelphia)
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06 Oct 1683 German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
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06 Oct 1689 Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
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06 Oct 1723 Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
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06 Oct 1762 English troops occupy Manila Philippines
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06 Oct 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.
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06 Oct 1777 American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
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06 Oct 1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
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06 Oct 1783 Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
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06 Oct 1789 French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
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06 Oct 1799 Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English / Russian army
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06 Oct 1811 French Emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
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06 Oct 1849 The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
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06 Oct 1854 In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
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06 Oct 1857 American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
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06 Oct 1861 Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs. BR Alert
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06 Oct 1861 Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
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06 Oct 1863 Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
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06 Oct 1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
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06 Oct 1866 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
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06 Oct 1871 Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
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06 Oct 1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
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06 Oct 1876 The American Library Association was founded.
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06 Oct 1882 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
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06 Oct 1884 Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island
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06 Oct 1884 The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
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06 Oct 1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG)
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06 Oct 1889 Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
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06 Oct 1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
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06 Oct 1889 American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
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06 Oct 1890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
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06 Oct 1893 Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
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06 Oct 1898 Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
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06 Oct 1903 The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
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06 Oct 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
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06 Oct 1908 Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
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06 Oct 1908 Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
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06 Oct 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
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06 Oct 1910 Braves beat Phillies 20-7
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06 Oct 1910 Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (seven times in total).
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06 Oct 1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
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06 Oct 1912 Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
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06 Oct 1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die
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06 Oct 1919 Stambuliski becomes Premier of Bulgaria
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06 Oct 1919 White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
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06 Oct 1921 Century Theater opens at 7th Ave and 59th St. NYC (demolished 1962)
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06 Oct 1921 Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
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06 Oct 1922 Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
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06 Oct 1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
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06 Oct 1923 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
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06 Oct 1923 US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 km/h (record)
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06 Oct 1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar
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06 Oct 1923 The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
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06 Oct 1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
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06 Oct 1927 "Jazz Singer, " 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
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06 Oct 1927 Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
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06 Oct 1928 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms Country Club - Baltimore
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06 Oct 1928 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes President of China
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06 Oct 1928 Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
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06 Oct 1929 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest Country Club - Los Angeles
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06 Oct 1931 Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
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06 Oct 1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
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06 Oct 1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
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06 Oct 1938 Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
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06 Oct 1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
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06 Oct 1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
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06 Oct 1939 World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
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06 Oct 1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat and Skyline in San Francisco
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06 Oct 1941 German army occupies Briansk, USSR
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06 Oct 1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
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06 Oct 1942 World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
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06 Oct 1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
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06 Oct 1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
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06 Oct 1944 Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
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06 Oct 1944 Canadians free Austria
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06 Oct 1944 HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
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06 Oct 1944 Soviets march into Hungary and Czechoslovakia
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06 Oct 1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
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06 Oct 1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
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06 Oct 1945 Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
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06 Oct 1946 President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
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06 Oct 1947 New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
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06 Oct 1948 "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
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06 Oct 1948 KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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06 Oct 1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
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06 Oct 1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
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06 Oct 1953 WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
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06 Oct 1955 LSD made illegal in US
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06 Oct 1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
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06 Oct 1956 South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
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06 Oct 1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
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06 Oct 1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
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06 Oct 1959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
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06 Oct 1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
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06 Oct 1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
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06 Oct 1961 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya USSR
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06 Oct 1962 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
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06 Oct 1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
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06 Oct 1963 LA Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series
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06 Oct 1964 "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
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06 Oct 1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
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06 Oct 1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
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06 Oct 1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
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06 Oct 1969 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, Maryland (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Oct 1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
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06 Oct 1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
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06 Oct 1973 Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
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06 Oct 1974 "Mack & Mabel, " opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
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06 Oct 1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
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06 Oct 1976 "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
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06 Oct 1976 Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
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06 Oct 1976 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
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06 Oct 1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
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06 Oct 1976 Cubana de Aviación 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.
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06 Oct 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.
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06 Oct 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.
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06 Oct 1977 DL Coburns "Gin Game, " premieres in New York City
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06 Oct 1977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game
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06 Oct 1977 In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
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06 Oct 1977 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
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06 Oct 1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
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06 Oct 1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
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06 Oct 1978 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
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06 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
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06 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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06 Oct 1980 Guyana adopts constitution
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06 Oct 1980 John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
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06 Oct 1981 Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
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06 Oct 1983 Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
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06 Oct 1983 New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
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06 Oct 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
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06 Oct 1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
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06 Oct 1985 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
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06 Oct 1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
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06 Oct 1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a Republic
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06 Oct 1987 Fiji becomes a republic.
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06 Oct 1988 Oakland Athletics sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
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06 Oct 1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
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06 Oct 1990 Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
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06 Oct 1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
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06 Oct 1991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
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06 Oct 1991 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
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06 Oct 1991 New York Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
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06 Oct 1993 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
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06 Oct 1994 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black Mayor of Middelburg South Africa
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06 Oct 1995 Colorodo Avalanche (former Quebec Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
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06 Oct 1995 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
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06 Oct 1996 Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
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06 Oct 1996 Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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06 Oct 1996 Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
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06 Oct 1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
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06 Oct 2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
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06 Oct 2000 Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
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06 Oct 2002 The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
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06 Oct 2007 Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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