What happened on 6 October?

13 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 OAPEC 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 Israel mobilising only that morning, its intelligence chiefs having insisted until 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 exoplanet around a Sun-like star (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, is usually taken to mark the end of the Cultural Revolution.
9. 1536 Tyndale is strangled and burned The scholar who first printed the New Testament in English — hunted across the Low Countries for it — is betrayed, condemned, and executed near Brussels, praying that God open the
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.
11. 1553 Execution of Şehzade Mustafa Convinced his popular eldest son is plotting against him, Suleiman has Mustafa strangled in the imperial tent before the army — a killing blamed on Hürrem and Rüstem Pasha.
12. 1802 Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament In a village outside Vienna, the 31-year-old composer writes to his brothers of his despair at growing deafness — and of resolving to live on for his art.
13. 1930 As I Lay Dying Fifteen narrators carry Addie Bundren's coffin across flood and fire to Jefferson, Mississippi — written, Faulkner claimed, in six weeks of night shifts at a power plant.