It happened on this day, October 6
Events:
1787 – Ottoman ruler Hassan Pasha Jazayirli leaves Egypt after failing to eliminate the Mamluks.
1927 – The first sound film is shown in the United States.
1973 – Start of the October War, when Egyptian forces cross the Suez Canal and Syrian forces cross the Alon Line in the Golan. Israel then celebrated Yom Kippur. The Arab armies won great victories over a narrow strip. the eastern bank of the Suez Canal was liberated from the Sinai lands and part of the Golan after their occupation in 1967.
1978 – Iraq expels Ayatollah Khomeini, based in Paris.
1979 – Pope John Paul II is received at the White House, becoming the first pope to be received there.
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat during the military parade organized on the occasion of the anniversary of the October War. The operation is led by Khaled Al-Islambouli, who is then executed.
1994 – Iraq mobilizes its military forces to the border with Kuwait, in a repeat of the crisis that began on August 2, 1990, when its forces occupied Kuwait.
2000 – Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic resigns under pressure from popular protests.
💥 The resignation of Argentina's Vice President, Carlos Alvarez, to condemn corruption and bribery issues.
2014 – John O'Keefe, Mai Britt Moser and Edward Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine
2015 – The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded equally to the Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita and the Canadian Arthur MacDonald, for their discovery of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation.
2017 – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Births:
1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician.
1838 – Major General Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi, Egyptian Prime Minister and poet.
1908 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician.
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer.
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, president of the Syrian Arab Republic.
1956 – Sadiq al-Ahmar, sheikh of the Yemeni Hashid tribe.
1978 – Reem Al-Baroudi, Egyptian actress.
1980 – Bushra, Egyptian actress.
** Ahmed Sobeih, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Abdoulaye Miette, Ivorian footballer.
1981 -Mohamed Ahmed Maher, Egyptian actor.
1984 – Aseel Hamim, Iraqi singer.
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Death:
1553 – Shahzadeh Mustafa, the eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent.
1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1922
1953 – Amin Nasser Al-Din, Lebanese journalist, novelist and linguist.
1981 – Mohamed Anwar Sadat, third president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978
1989 – Inventor of the game Sudoku, Howard Garnsbitt
2002 – Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, president of Algeria.
2017 – Mahmoud Ibrahim Salama, Egyptian calligrapher.
2018 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer nicknamed “soprano”.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Commemoration of the crossing into Egypt
⏪ Anniversary of the October War in Syria.
⏪ Armed Forces Day in Egypt.
⏪ Labor Day in Australia.
