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 280th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 23, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,048 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 ‘dihectaoctacontagon’ 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 115 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 4,307 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 6 Historical Events
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 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.
- 1854 –The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 1898 –Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1908 –Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1923 –The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
- 1927 –Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 1977 –In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1985 –PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
Who were born on October 6?
- 1838 –Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
- 1882 –Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
- 1888 –Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
- 1946 –Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
- 1964 –Tom Jager, American swimmer
- 1967 –Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
- 1971 –Alan Stubbs, English footballer
- 1978 –Ricky Hatton, English boxer
- 1979 –David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1979 –Richard Seymour, American football player
Who died on October 6?
- 1413 –Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1542 –Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1688 –Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
- 1829 –Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 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)
- 1985 –Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1995 –Benoît Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
- 1999 –Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
- 2008 –Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
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