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October 6 in history

207 sourced entries recorded on October 6, from 105 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 105 BCEThe Battle of Arausio, where the Cimbri destroy two Roman armies on the Rhône, is the most severe defeat of Roman forces since the Battle of Cannae.source
  • 69 BCERoman Republic troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Tigranocerta, and capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia.source
  • 68 BCELucius Lucullus defeats Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Artaxata.source
  • 23Emperor Liu Xuan's forces kill Wang Mang at the end of a three-day siege.source
  • 404Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy, which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.source
  • 618Battle of Yanshi: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi, during the transition from Sui to Tang civil war.source
  • 1066Harold II marches south from Stamford Bridge (near York) to counter the threat of the invasion by William. Reaching London within five days, he leaves a short time later. After a two-day march he and his army reach Caldbec Hill.source
  • 1111October 5 – 18-year-old Baldwin VII succeeds his father, Robert II, as Count of Flanders until 1119.source
  • 1124The siege of Aleppo by Baldwin II of Jerusalem and his allies begins. The fortress surrenders after less than four months, on January 25.source
  • 1273Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and theologian, writes Summa Theologica, a master work of Catholic theology, leaving it unfinished, after having a mystical experience during Mass.source
  • 1301(2 Safar 701 AH) Abu Numayy I, Arabic ruler of the Emirate of Mecca, abdicates and is succeeded by two of his sons, Rumaythah and Humaydah. Abu Numayy dies two days later at the age of 69.source
  • 1434Cosimo de' Medici returns to Florence, one year after being exiled by the Albizzi and Strozzi faction.source
  • 1436The University of Turin, originally created in 1404 is re-established in Turin in Italy after having been absent since 1427. Prince Ludovico of Savoy grants ducal licenses to set up colleges of Law, of Arts and Medicine, and of Theology.source
  • 1445A battle is fought at Erlenbach in Switzerland as troops from the canton of Zurich defeat a group of wine thieves. The battle takes place a year after the first battle of Erlenbach that had been waged on October 13, 1444.source
  • 1472King Edward IV of England gives royal assent to the Statute of Westminster 1472 which requires, effective immediately, a tax of four bow staves per every tun (252 wine gallons) of cargo brought in by a ship to an English port. The Statute is passed to remedy a shortage of yew wood, from which longbows are made, following the issuing of an edict in 1470 requiring compulsory training for soldiers to use the longbow.source
  • 1486Cardinal John Morton becomes the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England.source
  • 1497Sten Sture the Elder agrees to recognize Hans, King of Denmark and of Norway as the rightful King of Sweden and ends his 27-year term as the Swedish Regent.source
  • 1499Louis XII enters Milansource
  • 1506In Córdoba, in the Spanish kingdom of Andalusia, members of the nobility and the general public revolt against the Spanish inquisitor Diego Rodriguez de Lucero and General Inquisitor Diego de Deza. The mob liberates the people incarcerated at the Córdoba prison.source
  • 1538The eruption the Italian volcano ends after seven days, having created Monte Nuovo.source
  • 1543In order to aid James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland, in his defense against challenger Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, King Francois of France arranges for two envoys, Jacques de La Brosse and Jacques Ménage to deliver money and munitions to Dumbarton Castle. The envoys unwittingly deliver Arran's materials to Lennox.source
  • 1590Two days before the scheduled papal conclave begins, Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Count of Olivares, Spain's ambassador to the Papal States, presents the cardinals with the recommendations of King Philip II of Spain, a set of candidates whom the Spanish cardinals will support, and 30 whom they are instructed not to vote for.source
  • 1600The première of Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest known fully surviving work of modern opera, takes place in Florence for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. Emilio de' Cavalieri stages the production.source
  • 1603On the Philippine island of Luzon, the Sangley Rebellion against Spanish rule ends with the massacre of 20,000 Sangley Chinese residents in Manila.source
  • 1620Battle of Amedamit in Gojjam, Ethiopia: The Roman Catholic Ras Sela Kristos, half-brother of Emperor Susenyos, crushes a group of rebels, who are opposed to Susenyos' pro-Catholic beliefs.source
  • 1661Guru Har Krishan becomes eighth of the ten Sikh gurus, and at age 5 the youngest, following the death of his father Guru Har Rai.source
  • 1679Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb returns control of Bengal to the local Nawab of Murshidabad after removing his son, Prince Qutb-ud-Din Muhammad Azam, from the position of Mughal Governor of Dhaka.source
  • 1683Germantown, Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (in 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares a 300th Year Celebration, and in 1987, it becomes an annual holiday, German-American Day).source
  • 1689The papal conclave in Rome unanimously elects Pietro Vito Ottoboni as the new Pope. Ottoboni takes the name Alexander VIII and succeeds Pope Innocent XI, to become the 241st pope, the first Venetian to hold the office in over 200 years.source
  • 1690Massachusetts Puritans, led by Sir William Phips, besiege the city of Quebec; the siege ends in failure after six days.source
  • 1690An earthquake with strength 5.2 occurs in Caernarfon, Wales, causing tremors that can be felt as far away as London and Dublin.source
  • 1710October 5 – October 13 - British forces under Francis Nicholson conduct the successful Siege of Port Royal against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy at the Acadian capital, Port Royal, marking the start of British control of what became Nova Scotia.source
  • 1713The Treaty of Schwedt is signed between Russia and Brandenburg-Prussia, with the latter accepting the annexation of Baltic territories and paying Russia expenses in return for the southern part of Pomerania, recently taken from Sweden in the Great Northern War.source
  • 1739the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.source
  • 1756hurricane hits Britain causing large losses of corn and other crops.source
  • 1762September 24–October 6 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War – Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery: British troops capture Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery (Hudson River), and are able to dismantle the Hudson River Chain.source
  • 1779Action of 6 October 1779source
  • 1786HMS Bellerophon begins service with the Royal Navy.source
  • 1791The French Penal Code of 1791 is adopted.source
  • 1795October 5 – 13 Vendémiaire: Royalist riots in Paris are crushed by troops under Paul Barras and newly-reinstalled artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.source
  • 1804HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik is launched from Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1807English chemist Humphry Davy electrochemically isolates potassium from potash.source
  • 1821Cochrane sails to California.source
  • 1846Emboscada (palace coup)source
  • 1854The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in England is ignited by a spectacular explosion.source
  • 1854The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead is ignited by a spectacular explosion.source
  • 1859Thomas Austin takes 24 rabbits and 5 hares to Australia in order to release them there as a game. They will multiply exponentially.source
  • 1860Section 377 of the British Indian penal code was enacted in British India.source
  • 1866The Reno Gang commits the first train robbery in the United States, taking a total of $13,000.source
  • 1868The City of New York grants Mount Sinai Hospital a 99-year lease for a property on Lexington Avenue and 66th Street, for the sum of $1.00.source
  • 1870Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy.source
  • 1871Corpbanca begins business.source
  • 1876The American Library Association is founded in Philadelphia.source
  • 1880The ironclad ARA Almirante Brown is officially launched from a London shipyard.source
  • 1880The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.source
  • 1884The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island.source
  • 1889Mount Kilimanjaro's summit is first reached, by German geologist Hans Meyer with Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller.source
  • 1889The Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris.source
  • 1897Ethiopia adopts the tricolor flag: green is for the land, yellow for gold, and red is symbolic of strength and the blood shed.source
  • 1898The Sinfonia Club, later to become the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston by Ossian Everett Mills.source
  • 1901Legislative electionsource
  • 1903October 1–13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.source
  • 1906The National Consultative Assembly (Majlis) of Iran convenes for the first time.source
  • 1907The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany.source
  • 1907The Deutscher Werkbund is established in Munich.source
  • 1908The Bosnian crisis begins, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1909Martha Rendell becomes the last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.source
  • 1913The British Foreign Ministry recognized the Republic of China's Beiyang government and established the Embassy of the Republic of China in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the capital of London (in 1927, the country of change was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and sent a minister.source
  • 1913An official report on the lockout suggested that workers should be reinstated without having to give a pledge not to join the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.source
  • 1918Australia's first electric train service begins, between Newmarket and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.source
  • 1923The Occupation of Constantinople ends when the great powers of World War I withdraw.source
  • 19241-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.source
  • 1925October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.source
  • 1926First airplane factory in Kayserisource
  • 1927The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).source
  • 1929Serie A, the top-class professional football league of Italy, replaces the Divisione Nazionale.source
  • 1934Events of October the 6th: the President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, declares the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic, but Spanish troops swiftly crush the Catalan forces, and arrest him and the members of the Catalan government. The autonomy of Catalonia is suspended until 1936.source
  • 1935The wreckage of the RMS Lusitania is discovered.source
  • 1937October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.source
  • 1939General elections are called for 10 March 1940.source
  • 1942All men aged between 18 and 50 obliged to find work either in Belgium or in Germany.source
  • 1944The Dumbarton Oaks Conference concludes.source
  • 1944WWII: The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern Front, lasting until October 29.source
  • 1944Milan Nedić, president of the Serbian collaborationist puppet state of the Axis powers, the Government of National Salvation, flees from Belgrade in Nazi-occupied Serbia by air together with other Serbian collaborators and German officials, via Hungary to Austria.source
  • 1946The founding of the kibbutz Gal On.source
  • 19481948 Ashgabat earthquake: A 7.3 Ms earthquake near Ashgabat, Soviet Turkmenistan kills 10,000–110,000.source
  • 1949The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) established its first diplomatic and friendly relations with newly proclaimed Communist China (PRC) between the two nations.source
  • 1951October 3–8 – Korean War: First Battle of Maryang-san – United Nations (primarily Australian) forces drive back the Chinese.source
  • 1951Malayan Emergency: Communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney.source
  • 1953UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is made a permanent specialized agency of the United Nations.source
  • 1958The Khan of Kalat is dismissed from his fiefdom on sedition charges and arrested after exchange of fire between the Pakistan Army and the Khan's bodyguards. Some suspect a staged show instigated by President Iskander Mirzasource
  • 1959The Carmelit, Haifa's underground funicular railway, is opened.source
  • 19641964 Manyas earthquakesource
  • 1965Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the Hattersley housing estate. He and his girlfriend Myra Hindley are subsequently identified as the perpetrators of the "Moors murders" of four young people aged from 10 to 16.source
  • 1966LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.source
  • 1966The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).source
  • 1970Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.source
  • 1971October 4–7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.source
  • 1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
  • 1972A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico, kills 208 people.source
  • 1972September 30-October 7: Hurricane Joannesource
  • 1973Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.source
  • 1973Yom Kippur War: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egypt and Syria initiate a surprise attack on Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Hebrew calendar. Jordan, Iraq and other Arab nations support the Epyptian-Syrian war effort but do not take part in the conflict.source
  • 1976Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.source
  • 1976In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford incorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).source
  • 1976Consuelo Adler — model.source
  • 1976The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.source
  • 1979October 1–7 – Pope John Paul II makes a six-city visit to the United States, starting in Boston.source
  • 1979Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.source
  • 1985Noah Moses (born 1912), publisher and editor of Yedioth Ahronoth.source
  • 1986TRT 2, the second TV channel, starts airing.source
  • 1989October 1–13 – Typhoons Angela (Rubing), Dan (Saling), and Elsie (Tasing) impact the country in two weeks.source
  • 1990White supremacist David Duke receives 44% of the vote in the Louisiana Senate race, but ultimately loses the vote to Bennett Johnson.source
  • 1994October 2 – 16 – The Philippines participates in the 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan from October 2 to 16, 1994. It Ranks 14th with three gold medals, two silver medals and eight bronze medals with a total of 13 over-all medals.source
  • 1995Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.source
  • 1998Supreme Court votes, 8–5, to acquit former First Lady Imelda Marcos and to reverse a 1993 Sandiganbayan verdict convicting her of graft in connection with the construction of the Philippine General Hospital.source
  • 2003Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces engage in hostilities in the Shebaa Farms.source
  • 2006Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime Minister of Sweden.source
  • 2008A controversial Peruvian tape regarding a Norwegian oil company causes the 2008 Peru oil scandal, sparking protests which cause Jorge de Castillo to resign from office.source
  • 2009One of the most wanted suspects involved in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, is arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala.source
  • 2010Instagram was launched.source
  • 2010October 3–14 – 2010 Commonwealth Games takes place in Delhi, India.source
  • 2020Serious floods affected in Central Vietnam, lasted nearly 3 months and killed at least 249 people.source
  • 2021October 6–October 10 – The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy, and is won by France. They were originally scheduled for 2–6 June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling of UEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.source
  • 2021The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccine.source
  • 2025Eswatini receives 10 third-country nationals deported from the United States under an agreement with the Trump administration.source

Births

  • 1289Wenceslaus III, king of Hungary and Croatia (died 1306)source
  • 1459Martin Behaim, German explorer and cartographer (died 1507)source
  • 1474Luigi d'Aragona, Italian cardinal (died 1518)source
  • 1491Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol, French noble (died 1545)source
  • 1491Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol, French noble (died September 1 1545)source
  • 1510John Caius, English physician (died 1573)source
  • 1510Rowland Taylor, English Protestant martyr (died 1555)source
  • 1552Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China (died 1610)source
  • 1555Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (died 1604)source
  • 1565Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)source
  • 1565Marie de Gournay, writer (died 1645)source
  • 1573Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (died 1624)source
  • 1576Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, eldest surviving son of John Manners (died 1612)source
  • 1577Ferdinand of Bavaria (died 1650)source
  • 1617Vitus Bering, poet and historian (died 1675)source
  • 1640Christian Ulrik Gyldenløve, military officer and diplomat (born 1611).source
  • 1716George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (died 1771)source
  • 1729Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher, the first female (died 1804)source
  • 1742Johan Herman Wessel, poet (died 1785)source
  • 1769Isaac Brock, British general, administrator (died 1812)source
  • 1769Isaac Brock, military commander, administrator of Upper Canada (d.1812)source
  • 1773Louis Philippe I, King of the French (died 1850)source
  • 1808King Frederick VII of Denmark (died 1863)source
  • 18146 October (in England): Octavius Hadfield, 2nd Bishop of New Zealand.source
  • 1820Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (died 1887)source
  • 1846George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur, engineer (died 1914)source
  • 1851Wilhelm Oechsli, historian (died 1919)source
  • 1866Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (died 1932)source
  • 1887Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (died 1965)source
  • 1905Helen Wills, American tennis player (died 1998)source
  • 1914Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (died 2002)source
  • 1930Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (died 2000)source
  • 1969Sultan Muhammad V, 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysiasource
  • 1976Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (died 2025)source
  • 1978Westley Laboucherie, Mauritian footballersource
  • 2002Jonathan Kuminga, basketball playersource
  • 2002Cleopatra Stratan, singersource

Deaths

  • 23Wang Mang, Chinese emperor of the Xin dynasty (born c. 45 BC)source
  • 404Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress and wife of Arcadiussource
  • 775Al-Mansur, Muslim caliph (born 714)source
  • 877Charles II dies while crossing the pass of Mont Cenis at Brides-les-Bains, en route back to Gaul. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Stammerer, king of Aquitaine, who becomes ruler of the West Frankish Kingdom. Carloman, forced by an epidemic which breaks out in his army, returns to Germany. After the death of his father, Louis makes plans to receive the oath of fidelity from his subjects, but he learns that the magnates are refusing him obedience and rallying around Boso. The rebels are supported by his stepmother Richilda, and, as a sign of their displeasure, ravage the country. Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, intercedes and the rebels agree to a settlement. The magnates, whose rights Louis promises to recognize, all make their submissions.source
  • 877Charles the Bald, Holy Roman emperor (born 823)source
  • 997Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (born 912)source
  • 1008Menendo González, Galician noblemansource
  • 1014Samuel, emperor (tsar) of the Bulgarian Empiresource
  • 1017Wang Dan, Chinese Grand Chancellorsource
  • 1019Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (born 965)source
  • 1089Adalbero, Prince-Bishop of Würzburgsource
  • 1101Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Carthusian Order (born c.1030)source
  • 1145Baldwin, archbishop of Pisasource
  • 1180Amalric of Nesle, French prelate and Latin patriarchsource
  • 1182Richard Peche, bishop of Coventrysource
  • 1208Geoffrey de Muschamp, bishop of Coventrysource
  • 1309Frederick VII, German nobleman (House of Hohenzollern)source
  • 1349Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (born 1311)source
  • 1397Vuk Branković, Serbian lord (born 1345)source
  • 1413Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1382)source
  • 1536William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (born c. 1494)source
  • 1536English Bible translator William Tyndale is burned at the stake in Vilvoorde, Brabant.source
  • 1553Şehzade Mustafa, oldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent, is executed in Konya by order of his father.source
  • 1553Şehzade Mustafa, Suleiman the Magnificent's first-born son by Mahidevran Hatun (born 1515)source
  • 1559William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1487)source
  • 1564Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1518)source
  • 1638Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, Dutch mayor (born 1579)source
  • 1640Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (born 1588)source
  • 1644Elisabeth of France, queen of Philip IV of Spain (born 1602)source
  • 1661Guru Har Rai, Sikh guru (born 1630)source
  • 1739Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (born 1684)source
  • 1777Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French salon holder (born 1699)source
  • 1839William Light, British Army colonel, first Surveyor-General of South Australia (born 1786)source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The 13 Martyrs of Arad are executed after the Hungarian War of Independence, in repression by the Austrian authorities led by Julius Jacob von Haynau (these martyrs being the generals of the Hungarian revolutionary army, who did not flee from Hungary after the suppression of the Hungarian revolution by the Russo-Austrian forces). Also today, Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian prime minister, is executed by Austrian authorities in Pest.source
  • 1878Daniel da Silva, mathematician (born 1814)source
  • 1891Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist leader (born 1846)source
  • 1892Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate (born 1809)source
  • 1896Sir James Abbott, British army officer and colonial administrator in India (born 1807)source
  • 1962Tod Browning, American film director (born 1880)source
  • 1981Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a military parade.source
  • 1981Anwar Sadat, 62, Egyptian politician and military officer, he served as the president from Egypt from 1970 until his death in 1981, and he had previously served two terms as the Vice President of Egypt (1964, 1969-1970), he was assassinated by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad during the annual victory parade held in Cairo, his death has been attributed to a conspiracy of Islamic nationalists, anti-imperialists, and pro-Palestinian groups opposed to Sadat's peace initiative with Israel and the United States, relating to the Camp David Accords.source
  • 1991President Gorbachev condemns antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in Ukraine during WWII.source
  • 1991Soviet President Gorbachev condemns antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in the country during WWII.source