October 6: On This Progressive DayLast Polish army is defeated (1939)
LSD is declared illegal in the U.S. (1966)
Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War (1973)
In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed (1977)
President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat is gunned down by a member of the Islamic Group after a fatwā approving the assassination was issued by "The Blind Sheikh", Omar Abdel-Rahman (1981)
President B. Hussein Obama stages a victory-lap photo-op at the National Counter Terrorism Center in McLean, Virginia (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama, speaking at a press conference from the White House, urges Senate passage of his so-called "American Jobs Act" subsidy bill (2011)
b: Joseph Lowery (1921); d: Leonardo Conti (1945), Anwar al-Sadat (1981), Ahmed Jaber Ali al-Qattan (2011)
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