What Day Of The Week Is October 6?

October 6: Day of the Week

October 6, 2026 is the 279th day of the year 2026 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

October					2026
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

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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.

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October 6 by the Numbers

• 231 days since October 6
• 0 year, 7 months, and 17 days ago
• 7 months since then
• October 6 is in the 41st week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
• 33 weeks ago
• The year 2026 is not a leap year

October 6 Historical Event(s)

69 BCBattle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great. 105 BCBattle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. 404Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy who ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection short after. 1683German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America. 1889Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. 1927Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. 1973Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. 1976Massacre 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. 1987Fiji becomes a republic. 199551 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

Who were born on October 6?

1459Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) 1905Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998) 1914Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002) 1915Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007) 1927Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005) 1931Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1965Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player 1971Alan Stubbs, English footballer 1984Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer 1985Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player

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