06 October Special day in India

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06 October special day in India

Today’s Historical Events on October 6.

1807, 6th October: Sir Humphrey Davy discovered a new metal, and named it Potassium.

1908, 6th October: Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1927, 6th October: Warner Bros. ‘Jazz Singer’, the world’s first talkie film, was released in the United States.

1927, 6th October: The first independent film processing film laboratory in India, Atmananda Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao, also known as Dhanjibhai K. Desai.

1949, 6th October: The cornerstone of the National Defense Academy (NDA) building at Khadakwasla was laid by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

1973, 6th October: Egypt and Syria invaded Israel.

1981, 6th October: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

1987, 6th October: Fiji became a republic.

2007, 6th October: Jason Lewis completed a circumnavigation of the earth in a whaleboat.

2010, 6th October: Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded.

06 October in Indian History – Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on 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.

06 October in Indian History – Death Anniversaries of famous people on 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.