2025 Alberta teachers' strike
The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students.
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Hanni (singer)
Hanni, Australian singer
On October 6, 1995, the first episode of the popular sitcom 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' aired, launching Will Smith's career and...
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use what we have."
Woodrow Wilson
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Woodrow Wilson
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use what we have."
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Public holidays in Turkmenistan
Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan)
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William Tyndale
Christian feast day:
William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA))
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October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian feast day:
October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Mary Frances of the Five Wounds
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Mary Frances of the Five Wounds
