About October 6
October 6, 2025 is the 279th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 134 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.
- 68 BC –Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
- 105 BC –Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 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.
- 1889 –Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
- 1898 –Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1903 –The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
- 1908 –Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1923 –The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 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).
- 1973 –Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 –New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China.
- 1985 –PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 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 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- 2007 –Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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