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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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 St. 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'�tat.
1804 - The first scientifically recorded meteor lands in Possil, in north Glasgow, Scotland.
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 Township, 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.
1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress (Wikisource) (http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_declares_war_on_Germany)).
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.
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.
1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
1993 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
1994 - The genocide in Rwanda officially begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juv�nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.

Births

1483 - Rafael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1815 - Robert Volkmann, composer (d. 1883)
1823 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago, IL (d. 1899)
1866 - Butch Cassidy, outlaw (d. 1909)
1874 - Harry Houdini, magician (d. 1926)
1878 - Erich M�hsam, German author (d. 1934)
1884 - Walter Huston, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1950)
1890 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch designer of aircraft (d. 1939)
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, American industrialist (d. 1981)
1892 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer (d. 1981)
1903 - Mickey Cochrane, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1962)
1926 - Gil Kane, cartoonist (d. 2000)
1926 - Ian Paisley, United Kingdom politician
1926 - Sergio Franchi, singer, actor (d. 1990)
1927 - Gerry Mulligan, musician (d. 1996)
1928 - James D. Watson, geneticist
1929 - Andr� Previn, composer, conductor
1933 - Roy Goode, legal academic
1937 - Merle Haggard, country musician
1937 - Billy Dee Williams, actor
1938 - Paul Daniels, magician
1941 - Hans W. Geissend�rfer, German film director; Phil Austin, comedian
1942 - Barry Levinson, producer, director
1947 - John Ratzenberger, actor (Cheers)
1951 - Bert Blyleven, baseball pitcher
1952 - Marilu Henner, actress
1955 - Michael Rooker, actor
1969 - Ari Meyers, actress
1970 - Olaf K�lzig, NHL goalie
1976 - Candace Cameron, actress

Deaths

1199 - King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
1520 - Rafael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
1528 - Albrecht D�rer, artist (b. 1471)
1883 - Benjamin Raymond, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1801)
1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author
1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning poet (b. 1869)
1963 - Otto Struve, astronomer, (b. 1897)
1971 - Igor Stravinsky, composer (b. 1882)
1992 - Isaac Asimov, author, (b. 1920)
1992 - Molly Picon, actress
1994 - Juv�nal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
1996 - Greer Garson, actress (b. 1904)
1998 - Tammy Wynette, country musician (b. 1942)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia (b. 1903)
2003 - Hans Ringier, entrepreneur
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, jazz musician (b. 1927)
2004 - Nabunda, Instituto Superior T�cnico dog, mascot (b. 1983)

Holidays and observances

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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