Not to mention that it often coincides with Yom Kippur......

[aureantes]

 Ganked from faeshale......

Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.


October 6


Events

68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia. 

1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 

1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period 

1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.


Births

1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624) 

1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914) 

1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)


Deaths

1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809) 

1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) 

(plus....
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957.  Not exactly a role-model for intelligent natural coexistence... :-| )


Holiday

Eastern Orthodox saints (in Old Calendar are observed 13 days later):

• Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
• Martyr Macarius at Kion in Bithynia (1590)
• Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
• Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk

Plus one event I'd rather not have had on my birthday.....

2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized. 

Yeah......we do have a bit of a sticky relationship with religion, don't we.....? 
_