October 6 in history: • 1762 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Manila concluded with a British victory over Spain, leading to an eighteen-month occupation. → go there • 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains. → go there • 1973 – The Egyptian Armed Forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israel Defense Forces at the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula, beginning the Yom Kippur War. → go there • 1995 – Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star. → go there • 2000 – Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned. → go there Born 1729: Sarah Crosby Wiki link Born 1955: Wang Huning Wiki link Died 1980: Hattie Jacques Wiki link Died 2024: Johan Neeskens Wiki link Pictured: Egyptian forces raising the Egyptian flag in a captured Israeli position in the Sinai.