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'''April 6''' is the 96th day of the year in the [[Gregorian calendar]] (97th in [[leap year]]s). There are 269 days remaining.
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==Events==
*[[648 BC]] - Earliest [[solar eclipse]] recorded by the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]].
*[[402]] - [[Stilicho]] stymies the [[Visigoths]] under [[Alaric I|Alaric]] in the [[Battle of Pollentia]]
*[[1320]] - The [[Scotland|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]] - [[Netherlands|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]] - [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|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 [[United States|Union]] General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] meet [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops led by General [[Albert Sidney Johnston]] at [[Shiloh, Tennessee|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 [[1896 Summer Olympics|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 Edwin Peary|Robert Peary]] allegedly reaches the [[North Pole]].
*[[1917]] - [[World War I]]: [[United States]] declares war on [[Germany]] (see [http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_declares_war_on_Germany Wilson's address to Congress (Wikisource)]).
*[[1926]] - [[Walter Varney]] Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, WA to Elko, NV. 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 [[Twinkie]]s 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]].
*[[1968]] - In [[London]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Massiel]] wins the thirteenth [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for [[Spain]] singing "La, la, la".
*[[1970]] - Four [[California Highway Patrol]] officers died 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 [[United States|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]].
*[[1985]] - King and Queen Whalnutshia, [[Derwent Daw]] and [[Shannon Winser]], forming the first monarchy of the island since [[1679]].
*[[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]])
*[[1815]] - [[Robert Volkmann]], German composer (d. [[1883]])
*[[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]])
*[[1903]] - [[Mickey Cochrane]], baseball player (d. [[1962]])
*1903 - [[Doc Edgerton]], American electrical engineering (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
*[[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
*[[1954]] - [[Thom Bray]], American actor and filmographer
*[[1955]] - [[Michael Rooker]], American actor ([[Mallrats]]\[[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
*[[1972]] - [[David Woodard]], American conductor and composer ([[prequiem]])
*[[1975]] - [[Zach Braff]], American actor ([[Scrubs]]\[[Garden State]])
*[[1976]] - [[Candace Cameron]], American actress
==Deaths==
*[[1199]] - King [[Richard I of England]] (b. [[1157]])
*[[1520]] - [[Raphael]], Italian painter and architect (b. [[1483]])
*[[1528]] - [[Albrecht Dürer]], German artist (b. [[1471]])
*[[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 Wright Raymond|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]])
*[[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 [[Scotland|Scottish]] influence on [[United States|America]].
== External links ==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/6 BBC: On This Day]
* [http://www.tnl.net/when/4/6 Today in History: April 6]
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