Template:On this day/6 October

6 October:

• 1973 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Egyp launches a coordinatit attack wi Sirie against Israel leadin tae the Yom Kippur War.
• 1979 – Pape John Paul II acomes the first pontiff tae veesit the White House.
• 1981 – Egyptian Presies Anwar Sadat (picturt) is murthert bi Islamic extremists.
• 1995 – The star, 51 Pegasi, is diskivert tae be the seicont major starn apairt frae the Sun tae hae a planet orbitin aroond it.
• 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharin application, is foondit bi Kevin Systrom an Mike Krieger.

Hafez al-Assad (b. 1930) · Anwar Sadat (d. 1981) · Bette Davis (d. 1989)