Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 6
October 6, 2024 is the 280th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 6
- 68 BC –Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
- 404 –Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after.
- 1600 –Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- 1849 –The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1854 –The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 1903 –The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
- 1945 –Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
- 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.
- 1981 –Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 2002 –The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Who were born on October 6?
- 1459 –Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
- 1510 –John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
- 1866 –Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)
- 1887 –Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- 1900 –Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- 1920 –Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
- 1925 –Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
- 1964 –Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
- 1970 –Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
- 1984 –Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
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