About July 6

July 6, 2024 is the 188th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 207 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On July 6

  • 1044 –
    The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
  • 1348 –
    Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.
  • 1415 –
    Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
  • 1483 –
    Richard III is crowned King of England.
  • 1535 –
    Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
  • 1557 –
    King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
  • 1779 –
    Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1785 –
    The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
  • 1854 –
    In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
  • 1887 –
    David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
  • 1892 –
    Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • 1893 –
    The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
  • 1936 –
    A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 ft into the River Irwell.
  • 1942 –
    Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
  • 1944 –
    Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
  • 1964 –
    Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 1978 –
    The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
  • 1989 –
    The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus is driving by the edge of a cliff.
  • 1998 –
    Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
  • 2006 –
    The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

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