What happened on 6 October?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1973 Yom Kippur War Egypt and Syria launch surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday; leads to OPEC oil embargo.
2. 1973 Egypt and Syria strike on Yom Kippur At 2 p.m. on the holiest day of the Jewish year — with Israel's reserves at home fasting and its intelligence chiefs still insisting war is improbable — 100,000 Egyptians cross the
3. 1927 The Jazz Singer released First feature-length film with synchronised dialogue; ushers in the talkie era.
4. 1908 Bosnian Crisis Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, infuriating Serbia.
5. 1973 The Valley of Tears On the northern Golan, roughly 100 tanks of Israel's 7th Armoured Brigade fight 500 Syrian tanks for four days and nights, gunners falling asleep between engagements, until the las
6. 1434 Cosimo de' Medici returns from exile The Medici banker returns to Florence and becomes its de facto ruler - founding Medici power.
7. 1995 First confirmed exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) Discovery of first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
8. 1976 Gang of Four arrested The arrest of Mao's radical allies, weeks after his death, formally ends the Cultural Revolution.
9. 1536 Tyndale is strangled and burned The scholar who first printed the Bible in English — hunted across the Low Countries for it — is betrayed, condemned, and executed near Brussels, praying that God open the King of
10. 1804 Reign of Jean-Jacques Dessalines Declared Haitian independence and crowned himself emperor of the first black republic, and was assassinated two years later.