Events of the day

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 OCTOBER 6


*2002 : The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.



*2007: Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.


*2008 : MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second Mercury flyby



*2010 : Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram



*2012 : New Zealand wins inaugural Rugby Championship with a 32-16 win over South Africa in Johannesburg; undefeated All Blacks score 4 tries to 1 with Dan Carter booting 3 conversions, a penalty & dropped goal



*2013 : 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt



*2014 : John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine



*2015 : Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for work on neutrinos



*2017 : British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

*2017 : Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

*2017 : Storm Nate kills at least 22 people passing through Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras



*2018 : Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history in beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trial 31-7 at halftime but score 5 second half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas

*2018 : Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of Congo

*2018 : New Zealand claims 6th overall, and 3rd straight Rugby Championship with 32-20 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks outscore Springboks 4 tries to 3



*2019 : 99 Iraqis have died and 4,000 injured in protests over 5 days against living conditions, unemployment and corruption according to human rights group

*2019 : Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks

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