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October 6: Day of the Week
October 6, 2024 is the 280th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.
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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
October 6 Historical Event(s)
105 BC
Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
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.
1683
German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1876
The American Library Association was founded.
1908
Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910
Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
1973
Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1977
In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1995
51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
2000
Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
Who were born on October 6?
1773
King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1803
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1908
Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1925
Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
1935
Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1951
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1952
Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
1954
David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1962
Rich Yett, baseball player
1968
Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters ZAKFIGZAAGBY? Check your answers here: Words with these letters ZAKFIGZAAGBY. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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