Home / Events on 6 October

Events on 6 October

Events

• Instagram launched [2010]
• 51 Pegasi star discovered with planets around it [1995]
• The first talkie movie shown [1927]
• Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture [1889]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• Instagram’s birthday

Birthdays

• John Warnock [1940]
  Co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc.
• Sheila Greibach [1939]
  American computer scientist
• Ernest Walton [1903]
  Nobel laureate known for his research that laid the foundation of nuclear power
• Reginald Fessenden [1866]
  One of the pioneers of radio technology
• George Westinghouse [1846]
  American inventor, businessman and a pioneer of the electrical industry

Death Anniversaries

• Howard Garns [1989]
  Creator of the popular Sudoku puzzle
• Alexander Kronrod [1986]
  Soviet mathematician and computer scientist
• W. K. Kellogg [1951]
  Founder of the Kellogg Company