Event:
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents
More Notable Events on October 6:
1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1889 Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
