On this day

• The Redwood gazetteRedwood Falls, Minn.
• Willmar tribuneWillmar, Minn.
• The Montgomery advertiserMontgomery, Ala.
• Daily Kennebec journalAugusta, Me.
• Evening starWashington, D.C.
• The Washington timesWashington [D.C.]
• The Washington daily newsWashington, D.C.
• New Britain heraldNew Britain, Conn.
• The Indianapolis timesIndianapolis [Ind.] · Home Edition
• South Bend news-timesSouth Bend, Ind. · Morning Edition, Part One
• The Milwaukee leaderMilwaukee, Wis. · Morning Edition
• The Alaska daily empireJuneau, Alaska

42 front pages dated 6 October 1926 in the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, 12 shown here; each opens there, to read in full. Public domain: in the Library's words, newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.

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  618 · 1,408 years ago

  Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong's army defeated Li Mi's forces at the Battle of Yanshi, allowing Wang to consolidate power and soon depose China's Sui dynasty.

  Photo: SY · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1762 · 264 years ago

  Seven Years' War: The Battle of Manila concluded with a British victory over Spain, leading to a twenty-month occupation. · British occupation of Manila

  Photo: Blaue Max · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1777 · 249 years ago

  American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains. · Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery

  Photo: John Trumbull · Public domain

• 1908 · 118 years ago

  Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged the country's relations with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia. · Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bosnian Crisis

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  1927 · 99 years ago

  The Jazz Singer, one of the first feature-length motion pictures with a synchronized recorded music score, was released.

  Photo: author on the file page · Public domain

• 1934 · 92 years ago

  Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys, declared a general strike, an armed insurgency, and the establishment of the Catalan State in reaction to the inclusion of conservatives in the Spanish republican regime. · Events of 6 October

• 1973 · 53 years ago

  The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal to attack occupying Israeli forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War. · Operation Badr (1973)

• 1973 · 53 years ago

  The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal to attack occupying Israel Defense Forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War. · Operation Badr (1973)

• 1976 · 50 years ago

  Two bombs placed by the CIA-linked Cuban dissident group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations exploded on Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 people aboard. · Cubana de Aviación Flight 455

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  1981 · 45 years ago

  Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. · Operation Badr (1973) · Yom Kippur War

  Photo: author on the file page · Public domain

• 1985 · 41 years ago

  Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London. · Murder of Keith Blakelock · Broadwater Farm riot

• 1989 · 37 years ago

  About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP. · Castro Sweep · Castro District, San Francisco

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  1995 · 31 years ago

  Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star. · 51 Pegasi b

  Photo: L. Weinstein/Ciel et Espace Photos · CC BY 4.0

• 1998 · 28 years ago

  Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.

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  2000 · 26 years ago

  Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned. · Argentine Senate

  Photo: author on the file page · CC BY 2.0

• 2002 · 24 years ago

  Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden. · Maritime Jewel

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  2008 · 18 years ago

  The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.

  Photo: NASA / JHU/APL · Public domain

• Christian feast day: Bruno of Cologne
• Christian feast day: Faith · Saint Faith
• Christian feast day: Blessed Isidore De Loor · Beatification
• Christian feast day: Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
• Christian feast day: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher · Beatification
• Christian feast day: Mary Frances of the Five Wounds
• Christian feast day: Pardulphus
• Christian feast day: Sagar of Laodicea
• Christian feast day: October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Christian feast day: William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))
• World Space Week (October 4–10)
• Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan) · Public holidays in Turkmenistan
• Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia) · Remembrance days in Slovakia
• German-American Day (United States)
• Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary) · Public holidays in Hungary
• Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka) · List of Teachers' Days
• Yom Kippur War commemorations: Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
• Yom Kippur War commemorations: Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria)