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 187^th 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, 486,600 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 ‘hectaoctacontaheptagon’ day.

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.

July 6 Historical Events

• 1189 –
  Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
• 1253 –
  Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
• 1557 –
  King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
• 1893 –
  The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
• 1905 –
  Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1933 –
  The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League 4–2.
• 1942 –
  Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
• 1944 –
  The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America’s worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1967 –
  Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
• 1989 –
  The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus is driving by the edge of a cliff.

Who were born on July 6?

• 1818 –
  Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
• 1837 –
  Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
• 1904 –
  Erik Wickberg, Swedish 9th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
• 1948 –
  Nathalie Baye, French actress
• 1950 –
  John Byrne, American comic book author and artist
• 1957 –
  Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 –
  Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
• 1970 –
  Inspectah Deck, American rapper
• 1977 –
  Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
• 1987 –
  Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model

Who died on July 6?

• 1017 –
  Genshin, Japanese Tendai scholar (b. 942)
• 1583 –
  Edmund Grindal, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1519)
• 1768 –
  Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
• 1902 –
  Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
• 1934 –
  Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1888)
• 1952 –
  Gertrud Wolle, German actress (b. 1891)
• 1976 –
  Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
• 1986 –
  Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
• 1998 –
  Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2010 –
  Tilly Armstrong (alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander), British writer (b. 1927)