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

  • 1253 –
    Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
  • 1348 –
    Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.
  • 1483 –
    Richard III is crowned King of England.
  • 1495 –
    First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.
  • 1560 –
    The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
  • 1609 –
    Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 1966 –
    Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
  • 1975 –
    The Comoros declare independence from France.
  • 1978 –
    The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
  • 1986 –
    Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
  • 1988 –
    The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.
  • 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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