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.
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 1683 –German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
- 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.
- 1849 –The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1854 –The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 1908 –Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
- 1923 –The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 1973 –Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 –Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.
- 1976 –Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1977 –The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1985 –PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 1987 –Fiji becomes a republic.
- 2000 –Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2002 –The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
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