About October 6
October 6, 2024 is the 280th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 6
- 69 BC –Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
- 404 –Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 1762 –Seven Years’ War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
- 1849 –The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1876 –The American Library Association was founded.
- 1884 –The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 1945 –Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1987 –Fiji becomes a republic.
- 1995 –51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
- 2000 –Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- 2007 –Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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