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 279th 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.
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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.
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October 6 Historical Events
- 105 BC –Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
- 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.
- 1854 –The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 1876 –The American Library Association was founded.
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1985 –PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 2002 –The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Who were born on October 6?
- 1716 –George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
- 1801 –Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
- 1892 –Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
- 1950 –David Brin, American author
- 1952 –Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
- 1952 –Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
- 1953 –Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
- 1964 –Matthew Sweet, American musician
- 1981 –José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1995 –Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
Who died on October 6?
- 1661 –Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
- 1739 –Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne (b. 1684)
- 1951 –Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1968 –Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
- 1973 –François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1979 –Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1985 –Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1995 –Benoît Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
- 1999 –Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
- 2007 –Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
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