What are the important events that happened on July 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 6 is the 187th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 23, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,751,760,000 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 ‘hectaoctacontaheptagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 226 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 4,580 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 6 Historical Events
- 1044 –The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
- 1189 –Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
- 1415 –Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
- 1484 –Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
- 1892 –Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- 1905 –Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
- 1917 –World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- 1947 –The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
- 1957 –Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- 1988 –The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.
Who were born on July 6?
- 1884 –Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American railroad executive, yachtsman and bridge player, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970)
- 1907 –Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- 1914 –Vincent J. McMahon, American wrestling promoter (d. 1984)
- 1935 –Candy Barr, American stripper and actress (d. 2005)
- 1946 –Fred Dryer, American football player and actor
- 1946 –Sylvester Stallone, American actor
- 1957 –Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 –Lance Johnson, American baseball player
- 1967 –Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1981 –Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
Who died on July 6?
- 1017 –Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (b. 942)
- 1684 –Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
- 1758 –George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (b. c. 1725)
- 1813 –Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
- 1883 –Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853)
- 1963 –Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, Russian-born head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
- 1982 –Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 2000 –Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoir writer (b. 1911)
- 2005 –Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2005 –Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
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