April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL TARTAN DAY
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
NATIONAL TARTAN DAY
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany with President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress.
1929 – Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1970 – The Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. The first player to appear as the DH was Ron Blomberg (New York Yankees).
1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana andBurundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
BORN TODAY
1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (d. 1939)
1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (d. 1981)
1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian (d. 2009)
1917 – Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
1951 – Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian
2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
BORN TODAY
1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (d. 1939)
1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (d. 1981)
1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian (d. 2009)
1917 – Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
1951 – Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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