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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