About July 6
July 6, 2025 is the 187th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 226 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 6
- 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.
- 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.
- 1560 –The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
- 1573 –Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
- 1779 –Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1801 –Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
- 1809 –The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1905 –Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- 1919 –The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
- 1933 –The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League 4–2.
- 1939 –Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
- 1944 –Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
- 1947 –The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- 1964 –Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 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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