Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 6

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October 6: Fast of Gedalia in Judaism (2005); German-American Day in the United States.

105 BC: The Cimbri and the Teutons inflicted a major defeat on the Roman Republic in the Battle of Arausio.
1927: The first successful talking movie The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.
1976: Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China.
1981: Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
1995: An article in the journal Nature reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.