About October 6
October 6, 2023 is the 279th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 127 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.
- 1683 –German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1923 –The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 1927 –Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 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.
- 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 –Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
- 1977 –The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1987 –Fiji becomes a republic.
- 2000 –Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
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