What happend on 6th October

05.10
07.10
1976

New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

1976

Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.

1973

The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.

1966

LSD is declared illegal in the United States.

1955

A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people

1945

Baseball: Bill Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).

1939

Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

1928

Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

1927

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

1922

The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul