October
6
World
Habitat Day
In resolution
40/202 of 17 December 1985, the UN General Assembly designated
the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day.
In 2010, World Habitat Day is commemorated on 4 October.
The theme
of this year's World Habitat Day is "Better City, Better
Life" – the same as for the Shanghai Expo, where the United
Nations has a pavilion.
Currently,
more than half of all people live in towns and cities, and this
figure is expected to increase to two-thirds within the next
two generations.
With the
right actions and policies cities can successfully harness the
potential of sustainable living, mitigate inequalities and disparities,
and provide a home for people of all ages and cultures and economic
means.
By improving
access to decent shelter, basic services and safe public spaces
cities can improve the lives of individuals. They can also play
a key role in mitigating climate change by promoting energy
conservation and environmental sustainability.
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
defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes
the Great.
68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of
this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy
who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of
an infection shortly after.
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.
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 – England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts
shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
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.
1898 – Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece
for the first time (7 times in total).
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking
movie.
1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with
the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected
from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see
Curse of the Billy Goat).
1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against
Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Cubana 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 MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes
its maiden flight.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit
the White House.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
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 first major star apart
from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar 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.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Montenegro)
Christian Feast Day:
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
Bruno of Cologne
Faith
Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Pardulphus
Sagar of Laodicea
October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)
Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia)
German-American Day (United States)
Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka)
Yom Kippur War commemoration, and its related observance:
Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)
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