October 6 in history — What Happened Today in History

The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.

Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.

World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.

Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina.

World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria, launch a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.

World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

In England the great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.

Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth suffers a defeat against the Ottoman Empire in the battle of Cecora after a heroic defense over several days and the death of their commander Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski.

Adam Gemili, English sprinter

Jourdan Miller, American fashion model

Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player

Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player

Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player

Scarlett Byrne, English actress

Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player

Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player

Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (died 2014)

Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player

Pizzi, Portuguese footballer

Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player

Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922)

Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926)

Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923)

Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (born 1929)

Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (born 1944)

Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944)

Marian Seldes, American actress (born 1928)

Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976)

Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (born 1933)

Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)

Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)

Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917)

Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)