Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
114181October 5Holiday and observanceEngineer's Day (Bolivia)
114182October 5Holiday and observanceInternational Day of No Prostitution (International)
114183October 5Holiday and observanceOne of the three Mundus patet (Roman Empire)
114184October 5Holiday and observanceRepublic Day (Portugal)
114185October 5Holiday and observanceTeachers' Day (Pakistan)
114186October 5Holiday and observanceWorld Teachers' Day (International)
114187October 6Event105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
114188October 6Event69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
114189October 6Event23 – Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
114190October 6Event404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
114191October 6Event1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
114192October 6Event1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
114193October 6Event1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque period
114194October 6Event1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
114195October 6Event1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
114196October 6Event1762 – Seven Years' War: Conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
114197October 6Event1777 – American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
114198October 6Event1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on October 5.
114199October 6Event1849 – The execution of The 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
114200October 6Event1854 – In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
114201October 6Event1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
114202October 6Event1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
114203October 6Event1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
114204October 6Event1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills.
114205October 6Event1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
114206October 6Event1908 – Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
114207October 6Event1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (seven times in total).
114208October 6Event1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
114209October 6Event1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
114210October 6Event1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after the Battle of Kock

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