Here is a list of all the historic events that occurred on October 6. Read on to get informed!
- 1853 – 4th National Women’s Rights Convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1890 – Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
- 1903 – The High Court of Australia had its first sitting.
- 1922 – The great powers of the first world war withdrew from Istanbul.
- 1923 – USSR adopted an experimental calendar.
- 1939 – In World War II, the Last Polish army got defeated.
- 1944 – Canadians freed Austria.
- 1945 – US General Eisenhower was welcomed in The Hague.
- 1948 – Mary Leakey found the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul Africanus, on Rusinga Island in Kenya.
- 1949 – US President Harry Truman signed for NATO a Mutual Defense Assistance Act.
- 1976 – Admiral Sangad Chaloryu staged a coup, ousting the civilian government of Seni Pramoj.
- 1978 – In Chicago, Hannah H Gray, got inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university.
- 1981 – Assassination of the third president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
- 1985 – English footballer Mitchell Cole was born.
- 1987 – “Faith” single released by George Michael which became Billboard song of the year in 1988.
- 1990 – Solar Polar Orbiter ‘Ulysses’ was launched.
- 1993 – Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA after 9 seasons & 3 Championships with the Chicago Bulls.
- 1993 – The Stock Market index in Sydney rose to above 2000 for the first time.
- 2007 – Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
- 2020 – Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez for their work on black holes.