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
- 1683 –German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1889 –Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
- 1976 –New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China.
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1977 –The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- 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?
- 1610 –Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
- 1872 –Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
- 1903 –Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1950 –David Brin, American author
- 1963 –Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
- 1972 –Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
- 1973 –Jeff Davis, American comedian
- 1973 –Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
- 1977 –Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982 –Michael Arden, American actor
Who died on October 6?
- 1014 –Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
- 1542 –Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1945 –Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
- 1951 –Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1962 –Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
- 1968 –Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
- 1979 –Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1980 –Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
- 1992 –Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
- 2007 –L. M. Singhvi, Indian jurist and writer (b. 1931)
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