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, 1,759,708,800 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 ‘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
- 68 BC –Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
- 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.
- 1876 –The American Library Association was founded.
- 1898 –Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1903 –The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
- 1908 –Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1939 –World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
- 1976 –Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 2000 –Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
Who were born on October 6?
- 1767 –Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
- 1801 –Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
- 1905 –Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- 1908 –Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- 1914 –Joan Littlewood, British theatre director (d. 2002)
- 1921 –Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
- 1947 –Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
- 1954 –Darrell M. West, American political scientist
- 1958 –Joseph Finder, American novelist
- 1984 –Morne Morkel, South African cricketer
Who died on October 6?
- 1688 –Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
- 1829 –Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 1883 –Emperor Duc Duc (pronounced “dzup-duc”), the fifth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty (b. 1852)
- 1973 –François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1974 –Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
- 1977 –Danny Greene, Irish-American mobster from Cleveland (b. 1933)
- 1980 –Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
- 1998 –Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2000 –Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2007 –Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921)
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