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This day in history: October 6

1. 1985

   Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.

2. 1989

   About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP.

3. 1995

   Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi (depicted) as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.

4. 1998

   Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.

5. 2000

   Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.

6. 2002

   Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.

7. 2008

   The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt – the second largest impact crater on the planet.

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