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
- 69 BC –Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 1683 –German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1910 –Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
- 1923 –The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 1945 –Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
- 1973 –Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 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.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1985 –PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević 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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