Historical Events  -  October 6

1807 : Sir Humphrey Davy discovered a new metal, and named it Potassium.

1908 : Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1927 : Warner Bros. ‘Jazz Singer’, the world’s first talkie film, was released in the United States.

1927 : The first independent film processing film laboratory in India, Atmananda Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao, also known as Dhanjibhai K. Desai.

1949 : The cornerstone of the National Defense Academy (NDA) building at Khadakwasla was laid by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

1973 : Egypt and Syria invaded Israel.

1981 : Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

1987 : Fiji became a republic.

2007 : Jason Lewis completed a circumnavigation of the earth in a whaleboat.

2010 : Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 6  

1773: Louis Philippe I, King of France.

1779: Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Scottish diplomat and governor of the Indian state of Mumbai.

1808: Ardaseer Wadia, Indian shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia shipbuilding family.

1866: Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor, founder of radiotelephony.

1887: Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

1893: Meghnad Saha, an Indian astronomer and Member of Parliament.

1912: Dr. Hari Jeevan (H. J. Arnikar), Indian Atomic chemist, Professor.

1914: Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian navigator, and researcher.

1930: Richie Benoit, an Australian cricketer, and commentator.

1946: Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, filmmaker, and politician.

1946: Tony Gregg, English cricketer, and critic.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 6

1661: Guru Har Rai, the seventh of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.

1880: Benjamin Peirce, American mathematician.

1892: Lord Tennyson, English poet.

1951: W.K. Kellogg, an American industrialist, the founder of the Kellogg Company.

1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German physician, and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology.

1974: V K Krishna Menon, Indian politician, non-career diplomat, and a nationalist.

1981: Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian politician, the third President of Egypt.

2007: L. M. Singhvi, Indian politician, Lawyer, Scholar, Diplomat, and Ambassador of India to England.

2015: Arpad Gonzalez, Hungary’s first president.