October 06

1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, is born.

• He, alongside John Cockcroft, won the Nobel Prize in 1951 for splitting the atom.

1995 – Star "51 Pegasi" is discovered by Humans to be the first major star, apart from their Sun, to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

• The planet in question is roughly 160 times the mass of Earth.