October 6 Historical Events
The following events took place on October 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 42 events. Showing 31 - 42.
- 1977In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1977The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- 1979Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1981Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
- 1985PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 1987Fiji becomes a republic.
- 199551 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
- 1999Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is adopted.
- 2000Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- 2000Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2002The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- 2007Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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