What are the important events that happened on October 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 6 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 23, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,048 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontagon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,307 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 6 Historical Events
- 69 BC –Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1884 –The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1898 –Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 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).
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
Who were born on October 6?
- 1876 –Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
- 1906 –Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1920 –Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
- 1930 –Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1944 –Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1952 –Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
- 1956 –Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
- 1971 –Alan Stubbs, English footballer
- 1976 –Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
- 1986 –Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
Who died on October 6?
- 1762 –Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
- 1873 –Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
- 1947 –Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
- 1951 –Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1979 –Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1993 –Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (b. 1949)
- 1997 –Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1999 –Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 2009 –Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)
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