6th October

EVENTS:

• 1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
• 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.
• 1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
• 1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
• 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.
• 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
• 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
• 2022 – Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

BIRTHS:

• 1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932)
• 1893 – Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956)
• 1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
• 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Tony Greig, South African–English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor and producer
• 1952 – Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
• 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1982 – Meiyang Chаng, Indian actor and singer
• 1985 – Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
• 1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
• 2000 – Kyle Pitts, American football player
• 2004 – Bronny James, American basketball player

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Armed Forces Day (Montenegro)
• Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)
• Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)
• Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary)
• Teachers’ Day (Sri Lanka)