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 279^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 23, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,808 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 ‘dihectaheptacontaenneagon’ 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 134 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 4,672 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 6 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1683 –
  German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
• 1789 –
  French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
• 1884 –
  The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1908 –
  Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 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.
• 1977 –
  In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
• 1979 –
  Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 2002 –
  The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

Who were born on October 6?

• 1769 –
  Sir Isaac Brock, British soldier (d. 1812)
• 1908 –
  Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
• 1915 –
  Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
• 1918 –
  Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
• 1920 –
  Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
• 1946 –
  Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
• 1946 –
  Millie Small, Jamaican singer
• 1951 –
  Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
• 1959 –
  Dennis Ray Boyd, American baseball player
• 1977 –
  Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer

Who died on October 6?

• 1014 –
  Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
• 1661 –
  Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
• 1873 –
  Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
• 1891 –
  Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 –
  Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
• 1980 –
  Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
• 1980 –
  Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
• 1997 –
  Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1999 –
  Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 2008 –
  Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)