Important Events From This day in History – 6th October

Today in History

• 2007 – First successful human-powered attempt to circumnavigate the world

  Englishman Jason Lewis set out on the journey, also called Expedition 360 on July 12, 1994, from Greenwich, London. The over 46,000-mile expedition around the world took him 4,833 days, during which he used only human-powered modes of transportation including bicycles, roller blades, and a pedal-powered boat.

• 1995 – First exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star discovered

  Swiss astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor announced the discovered exoplanet 51 Pegasi B or Bellerophon. The Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits a star called 51 Pegasi, which has a magnitude of 5.49. 51 Pegasi B takes 4.23 Earth days to orbit around its star.

• 1981 – Assassination of Anwar Sadat

  The third president of Egypt, Sadat was killed by members of the terrorist group Takfir Wal-Hajira during a parade held to commemorate the 8th anniversary of Operation Badr. Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and overran the Bar Lev Line in Israel in this military operation. The military operation stated the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The assassination is thought to be a result of Sadat’s efforts to bring peace to the region which started with the Camp David Accords in 1978.

• 1976 – Coup in Thailand

  Admiral Sangad Chaloryu staged a coup ousting the civilian government of Seni Pramoj.

• 1908 – Bosnian crisis

  Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been nominally under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The takeover raised tensions within the Balkan region in Europe and threatened to end in a war.