Sunday, October 6, 2013

October 6th in History


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.

1539 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.

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.

1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5th October

1854 - England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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

1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

1987 - Fiji becomes a republic.

2000 - Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.

2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Famous Birthdays:

1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia

1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

1767 - King Henri Christopheof Haiti

1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France

1906 - Janet Gaynor, actress

1921 - Joseph Lowery, Civil rights movement leader

1922 - Teala Loring, actress

1930 - Hafez al-Assad, 20th President of Syria

1940 - Ellen Travolta, actress

1948 - Gerry Adams, politician

1966 - Niall Quinn, footballer

1969 - Troy Shaw, snooker player

1977 - Wes Ramsey, actor

1982 - Fábio Júnior dos Santos, footballer

1983 - Renata Voráčová, tennis player

1989 - Pizzi, footballer

1991 - Roshon Fegan, actor and dancer

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