On this day... October 6, 2006:

(sources: wikipedia.org)

Sukkot in Judaism begins at sunset.

Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chinese lunar calendar (2006).

German-American Day in the United States.

1981 Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat

was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo

to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.