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Events
105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
69 BC – 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.
23 – Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404 – 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.
1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
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.
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.
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 – In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1863: Confederate guerillas attack Baxter Springs, Kansas.
1866 – The first ever robbery of a moving train in the United States occurred in Jackson County, Indiana. The robbers, known as the Reno Gang, robbed a train from the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, making off with more than 10,000 dollars.
1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1889: The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public.
1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – Austria-Hungary formally annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resulting Bosnian crisis was a contributing factor to World War I.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (seven times in total).
1918 – The U.S. ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, killing 425.
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock.
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.
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War, that brings the United States and the USSR to the brink of conflict.
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.
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 Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979: Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.
1981: Islamic extremists assassinate Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, as he reviews troops on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Bruno, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
Bruno of Cologne
Faith
Mary Frances of the Five Wounds
Pardulphus
Sagar of Laodicea
Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
Bruno of Cologne
Faith
Mary Frances of the Five Wounds
Pardulphus
Sagar of Laodicea
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism),
with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))
with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos,
at Prusa in Bithynia (1590)
Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "All-Hymned Mother"
Glorification (1977) of Saint Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts
and Apostle to the Americas (1879)
Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos,
at Prusa in Bithynia (1590)
Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "All-Hymned Mother"
Glorification (1977) of Saint Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts
and Apostle to the Americas (1879)
Coptic Orthodox
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