WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. OCTOBER
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The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul. (6. October 1923)

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. (6. October 1927)

World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock (6. October 1939)

World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. (6. October 1942)

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). (6. October 1945)

Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. (6. October 1973)

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. (6. October 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. (6. October 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. (6. October 1976)

In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. (6. October 1977)

The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. (6. October 1977)

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. (6. October 1979)

Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated. (6. October 1981)

PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. (6. October 1985)

Fiji becomes a republic. (6. October 1987)

51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. (6. October 1995)

Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns. (6. October 2000)

Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns. (6. October 2000)

The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. (6. October 2002)

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. (6. October 2007)