On this Day in History, October 6

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.
  • 1993Michael 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.

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