April 6
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April 6 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining after April 6 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter (d. 1520)
- 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria (d. 1649)
- 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish politician (d. 1742)
- 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
- 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
- 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
- 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet (d. 1951)
- 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
- 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1904 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)
- 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (d. 1979)
- 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Big Walter Horton, American blues musician (d. 1981)
- 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist
- 1925 – Helga Deen, victim of the Holocaust (d. 1943)
- 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish minister and politician
- 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist
- 1929 – Andre Previn, American musician
- 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010)
- 1937 – Merle Haggard, American musician
- 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- 1942 – Barry Levinson, American director
- 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
- 1949 – Horst Ludwig Stoermer, German physicist
- 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- 1961 – Rory Bremner, English comedian
- 1963 – Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador
- 1965 – Amedeo Carboni, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
- 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor
- 1971 – Martin Hansson, Swedish football referee
- 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress
- 1973 – Gina Yashere, English comedienne
- 1974 – Robert Kovac, Croatian footballer
- 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor
- 1976 – Candace Cameron, American actress
- 1978 – Myleene Klass, English singer
- 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer
- 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player
- 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
- 1986 – Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer
- 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, English-Congolese footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1199 – King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
- 1520 – Raphael, Italian painter (b. 1483)
- 1782 – Taksin, King of Siam (b. 1734)
- 1825 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
- 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
- 1906 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1845)
- 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1870)
- 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
- 1972 – Heinrich Lübke, second President of the Federal Republic of Germany, (b. 1894)
- 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
- 1994 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
- 1996 – Greer Garson, British actress (b. 1904)
- 1998 – Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
- 2004 – Victor Argo, American movie actor (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
[change] 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.
- 1667 – Dubrovnik is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 5,000 people.
- 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.
- 1911 – Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- 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,responsibility is disputed.
- 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.
- 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
- 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies, at the age of 81 years. His son succeeds him as Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
- 2005 – Jalal Talabani becomes President of Iraq.
- 2009 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes near L'Aquila in central Italy, killing around 300 people, mainly as a result of collapsing buildings.
