Talk: October 6
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- 1927 - The first successful talking movie "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson, was released.
- 1976 - Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in China.
- 1981 - Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat was assassinated.
- 1995 - An article in the journal Nature reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
- 1998 - University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was attacked for being gay (he later died from his wounds).
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