Today in History: Instagram is founded

Here are some of the most significant global events that occurred on October 6:

105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic.

1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

1789 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

1908 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1915 – World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.

1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.

1943 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

1976 – Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.

2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.