Hello Steemians, today I want to go a bit down the memory lane, and so has decided to compile a list of some remarkable events that happened some years back on exactly this date October 6th.
October 6th,1014, (Slayer of the Bulgers):
The Byzantine Emperor Basil II from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025, also known as Basil the Porphyrogenitus or Basil the young; earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops.
October 6th, 1536 (William Tyndale is killed)
William Tyndale, an English scholar who was a leading figure in Protestant reform, known for his work of translating the New Testament from Hebrew to English language, was strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France, on this day.
October 6th, 1696
Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance. The Grand Alliance made up of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, England and Savoy Germany waged a Nine Years' War (1688–97) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg against Louis XIV of France. And Savoy Germany pulled out of the war on this day.
October 6th, 1847:
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
October 6th, 1866:
The Reno brothers--Frank, John, Simeon and William--commit the country's first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana and made away with $10,000.
October 6th, 1917 (Battle of Passchendaele):
Canadian troops succeed in capturing the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after a casualty of 250,000 fighters on both sides.
October 6th, 1939:
Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
October 6th, 1948(Ashgabat earthquake)
The Ashgabat earthquake, with a surface wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), kills a 100,000 people in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
October 6th, 1951:
Joseph Stalin on this day proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
October 6th, 1956 (Polio vaccine discovered)
Dr Albert Sabin on this day discovers oral polio vaccine.
October 6th, 1965:
Patricia Harris becomes U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.
October 6th, 1973 (Yom Kippur War begins)
On this day, Israel is attacked by Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, leading to the Yom Kippur War.
October 6th, 1981:
Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists, and Vice President Hosni Mubarak succeeds him.
October 6th, 1995:
Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.
October 6th, 2000:
Both the Yugoslavia president Slobodan Milosevic and the Argentine vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices.
I'll stop so far, feel free to comment, adding events you remember about this day in history.
