About October 6
October 6, 2022 is the 279th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 108 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.
- 105 BC –Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
- 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.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 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.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
- 1789 –French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
- 1849 –The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1876 –The American Library Association was founded.
- 1884 –The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1908 –Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 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 –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 –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.
- 2000 –Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- 2007 –Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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