What Happened On This Day – 6 October

Let’s check out what are the important events that happened on this day…

2007 First successful human-powered attempt to circumnavigate the world

1995 First exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star discovered

1981 Assassination of Anwar Sadat

1976 Coup in Thailand

1908 Bosnian crisis

Births On This Day – 6 October

1985 Mitchell Cole
(English footballer)

1955 Tony Dungy
(American football player, coach)

1930 Hafez al-Assad
(Syrian general, politician, 20th President of Syria)

1846 George Westinghouse
(American engineer, inventor)

1769 Isaac Brock
(English army officer)

1992 Bill O’Reilly
(Australian cricketer)

1989 Bette Davis
(American actress)

1981 Anwar Sadat
(Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate)

1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(English poet)

1542 Thomas Wyatt
(English poet)