About July 6

July 6, 2024 is the 188th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 207 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On July 6

  • 1189 –
    Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
  • 1560 –
    The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
  • 1609 –
    Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
  • 1751 –
    Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
  • 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.
  • 1801 –
    Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
  • 1854 –
    In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
  • 1885 –
    Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • 1892 –
    Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • 1893 –
    The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1957 –
    Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
  • 1962 –
    As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
  • 1978 –
    The Taunton sleeping car fire occurs in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    The Troubles: Five days of fierce riots and clashes in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland begin.
  • 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.

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