April 6
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April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining.
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Events
- 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
- 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia
- 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
- 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire in Avignon.
- 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
- 1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
- 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
- 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette, New York.
- 1832 - Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
- 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins - In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
- 1869 - Celluloid is patented.
- 1886 - Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.
- 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
- 1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
- 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.
- 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
- 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress).
- 1926 - Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, Washington, to Elko, Nevada. Varney is the root company of United Airlines.
- 1930 - Gandhi raised a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he started Salt Satyagraha.
- 1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
- 1930 - Will Rogers starts broadcasting The Will Rogers Program on radio.
- 1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
- 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins - Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
- 1965 - Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit, is launched.
- 1968 - In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la."
- 1970 - Four California Highway Patrol officers die in one of the worst cop killings in the CHP's history; this is known as the Newhall Incident.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- 1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins.
- 1974 - In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo."
- 1984 - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard from country's northern region attack various government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
- 1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
- 1993 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
- 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
- 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
- 1998 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 49.82 to close at 9,033.23 -- its first-ever close above 9,000.
- 2001 - Miller Park opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Births
- 1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
- 1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
- 1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
- 1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
- 1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
- 1815 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
- 1823 - Joseph Medill, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
- 1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1909)
- 1878 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
- 1884 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
- 1890 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch designer of aircraft (d. 1939)
- 1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American industrialist (d. 1981)
- 1892 - Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (d. 1981)
- 1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
- 1903 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (d. 1962)
- 1903 - Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
- 1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Ian Paisley, British politician
- 1926 - Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1929 - André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
- 1931 - Ivan Dixon, American actor and director
- 1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
- 1934 - Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka and IOC member
- 1937 - Merle Haggard, American musician
- 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- 1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician
- 1938 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
- 1941 - Phil Austin, American comedian
- 1941 - Zamfir, Romanian musician
- 1942 - Barry Levinson, American film producer and director
- 1944 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- 1947 - John Ratzenberger, American actor
- 1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch Major League Baseball player
- 1952 - Marilu Henner, American actress
- 1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, vocalist of Accept and U.D.O.
- 1954 - Thom Bray, American actor and filmographer
- 1955 - Michael Rooker, American actor (Mallrats and Eight Men Out)
- 1965 - Frank Black, American singer and songwriter (Pixies)
- 1969 - Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican actress
- 1969 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)
- 1970 - Olaf Kölzig, South African hockey player
- 1973 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress
- 1975 - Zach Braff, American actor (Scrubs and Garden State)
- 1976 - Candace Cameron, American actress
Deaths
- 1199 - King Richard I of England (killed in battle) (b. 1157)
- 1362 - James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
- 1490 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
- 1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
- 1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
- 1551 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
- 1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
- 1590 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster
- 1605 - John Stow, English historian
- 1655 - David Blondel, French protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
- 1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
- 1707 - Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
- 1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
- 1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
- 1883 - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
- 1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
- 1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
- 1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (b. 1870)
- 1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
- 1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
- 1974 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
- 1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
- 1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
- 1996 - Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
- 1998 - Tammy Wynette, American musician (b. 1942)
- 1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
- 2000 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
- 2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (pulmonary embolism) (b. 1963)
- 2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
- 2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
- Feast day of St. Sixtus and Marcellinus of Carthage in the Roman Catholic Church.
- The start of the tax year in the United Kingdom (arising from the 11 day correction to March 25 at the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752).
- Tartan Day, a day set aside for the celebration of the Scottish influence on America.
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