About October 6
October 6, 2024 is the 280th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 6
- 68 BC –Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
- 404 –Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after.
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 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.
- 1854 –The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 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.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
- 1927 –Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 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.
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1987 –Fiji becomes a republic.
- 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 –Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2002 –The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- 2007 –Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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