6 October

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

## Events

* 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.

## Births

* 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

## Daiths
* 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)

## Halidays

* 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