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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1849 –The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1884 –The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –Fiji becomes a republic.
- 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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