About July 6
July 6, 2023 is the 187th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 219 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 6
- 1044 –The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
- 1189 –Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
- 1253 –Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1560 –The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
- 1609 –Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
- 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.
- 1885 –Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
- 1893 –The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
- 1936 –A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 ft into the River Irwell.
- 1942 –Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
- 1944 –Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
- 1957 –Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- 1978 –The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
- 1999 –U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
- 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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