6th Oct: Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka).
6th Oct: National Noodle Day (United States of America).
6th Oct: National Mad Hatter Day (United States of America).
6th Oct: Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia).
Important Events on 6th of October
105 B.C. = The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus in the Battle of Arausio.
68 B.C. = Lucullus defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia in the Battle of Artaxata.
1857 A.D. = First American Chess Congress started in New York.
1861 A.D. = On this day, Revolt of Russian Students shuts down University of Petersburg.
1863 A.D. = First Public Bath opened in Brooklyn by Dr Charles H Sheppard.
1893 A.D. = Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1903 A.D. = The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1911 A.D. = Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch Woman Pilot.
1921 A.D. = The International PEN, a worldwide association of Writers is founded in London.
1923 A.D. = USSR adopts experimental calendar.
1940 A.D. = Zoological Gardens opens at Sloat & Skyline Boulevards in San Francisco, California.
1948 A.D. = Paleoanthropologist named Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1948 A.D. = In a natural disaster, Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 lives in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
1981 A.D. = The president of Egypt was assassinated.
1987 A.D. = Fiji becomes a Republic.
1995 A.D. = First major Star apart from the our Sun to have a planet orbiting around it, the 51 Pegasi b Planet was discovered. This planet is around half the size of Jupiter and orbits its star every four days. It was discovered by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz at the Haute-Provence Observatory in France.
2008 A.D. = MESSENGER Spacecraft performed a second Mercury Flyby on this day.
2010 A.D. = Famous and addictive social media platform - Instagram was launched.
2021 A.D. = WHO recommends World's first Malaria Vaccine - Mosquirix for children.
Important Birthdays on 6th of October
1973 A.D. = Ioan Gruffudd (WelshActor).
1990 A.D. = Scarlett Byrne (English Actress).
Important Death Anniversaries on 6th of October
1661 A.D. = Guru Har Rai (7th Sikh Guru).
