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
- 1189 –Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
- 1253 –Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1484 –Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
- 1495 –First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.
- 1573 –Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
- 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.
- 1885 –Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- 1892 –3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
- 1942 –Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1944 –The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America’s worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1947 –The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- 1962 –As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
- 1964 –Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 –The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
- 1998 –Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
- 2003 –The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
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