What are the important events that happened on June 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 6 is the 157th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 208 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 24, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,749,168,000 seconds 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 ‘hectapentacontaheptagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 256 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 4,550 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 6 Historical Events
- 1654 –Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
- 1822 –Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
- 1882 –The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- 1889 –The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
- 1892 –Chicago ‘L’begins operation
- 1919 –The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
- 1933 –The first drive-in theater opens in Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States.
- 1971 –Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
- 1985 –The grave of “Wolfgang Gerhard” is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”. Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
- 1993 –Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
Who were born on June 6?
- 1902 –Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
- 1947 –Robert Englund, American actor
- 1955 –Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian
- 1957 –Fred Arbinger, German footballer
- 1960 –Lola Forner, Spanish actress
- 1961 –Nir Brand, Israeli composer
- 1966 –Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1974 –Sonya Walger, British actress
- 1978 –Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
- 1987 –Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
Who died on June 6?
- 1840 –Marcellin Champagnat, French priest, saint, co-founder of the Marist Fathers and founder of the Marist Brothers (b. 1789)
- 1881 –Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
- 1916 –Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
- 1943 –Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1900)
- 1946 –Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
- 1955 –Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (b. 1875)
- 1982 –Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
- 2000 –Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
- 2002 –Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
- 2003 –Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
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