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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.

Events

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
• 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
• 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
• 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
• 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
• 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town .
• 1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
• 1782 – Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'état.
• 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins.
• 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
• 1812 – British forces assault the fortress of Badajoz under the command of the Duke of Wellington. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon led France.
• 1814 – Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
• 1830 – The Church of Christ is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
• 1832 – Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War begins – the Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
• 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—later renamed Community of Christ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
• 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.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The 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.
• 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
• 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
• 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish the Clemson Agricultural College.
• 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London 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 is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
• 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach 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: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
• 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
• 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
• 1926 – Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha.
• 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
• 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
• 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
• 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms.
• 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
• 1965 – The British Government announced the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
• 1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter
• 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declared "fight against bourgeois TV" — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
• 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
• 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
• 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
• 1998 – Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
• 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
• 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.

Births

• 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1613 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
• 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
• 1651 – André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
• 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
• 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
• 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
• 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
• 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker (d. 1853)
• 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
• 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist (d. 1888)
• 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
• 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
• 1820 – Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
• 1823 – Joseph Medill, journalist and mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
• 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
• 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
• 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
• 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
• 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist (d. 1897)
• 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales (d. 1871)
• 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
• 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, film maker, graphic artist and avant-gardist (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967)
• 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)
• 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
• 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (d. 1960)
• 1901 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
• 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
• 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet (d. 1933)
• 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
• 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
• 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
• 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British-born surrealist painter
• 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
• 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate
• 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
• 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
• 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972)
• 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and radio and television writer (d. 2005)
• 1929 – André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
• 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (d. 2008)
• 1931 – Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu spiritual teacher
• 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Roy Goode, British lawyer
• 1933 – Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka
• 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian visual artist (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian-born science fiction writer (d.2007)
• 1936 – Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli visual artist
• 1937 – Merle Haggard, American musician
• 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982)
• 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician
• 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor
• 1939 – André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
• 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
• 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat
• 1941 – Phil Austin, American comedian
• 1941 – Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer
• 1941 – Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
• 1942 – Barry Levinson, American film producer/director
• 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
• 1945 – Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality
• 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
• 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress
• 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer
• 1951 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
• 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German singer
• 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress
• 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
• 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
• 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American delta blues musician
• 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist
• 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer
• 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor
• 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian
• 1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator
• 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean visual artist
• 1957 – Jaroslava Maxova, Czech opera singer
• 1957 – Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
• 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist
• 1960 – Warren Haynes, American guitarist and song writer
• 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, song writer, singer and bandleader
• 1961 – Rory Bremner, English comedian and impressionist
• 1962 – Iris Häussler, German-born installation artist
• 1963 – Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador
• 1964 – Phil Gayle, English news presenter
• 1965 – Frank Black, American singer/songwriter
• 1965 – Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete
• 1965 – Sterling Sharpe, American football player
• 1966 – Young Man Kang, South Korean film director
• 1967 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
• 1967 – Jonathan Firth, British actor
• 1968 – Vanessa Lann, American composer
• 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
• 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright
• 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)
• 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican-born American actress
• 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver
• 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor
• 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player
• 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, South African–born ice hockey player
• 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
• 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player
• 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-born American tattoo artist
• 1972 – Jason Hervey, American actor
• 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower
• 1973 – Donnie Edwards, American football player
• 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer
• 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
• 1973 – Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
• 1973 – Gina Yashere, English comedian
• 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
• 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor
• 1975 – Hal Gill, Ice Hockey player
• 1976 – Candace Cameron, American actress
• 1976 – Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician (Sigur Rós)
• 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese sports writer
• 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player
• 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
• 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer
• 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth)
• 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player
• 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer
• 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist (The Academy Is...)
• 1982 – Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
• 1982 – Bret Harrison, American actor
• 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress
• 1983 – Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
• 1983 – Dash Shaw, American comic book writer and artist
• 1983 – James Wade, English darts player
• 1984 – Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter
• 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Aaron Curry, American football player
• 1987 – Levi Porter, English footballer
• 1988 – Leigh Adams, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 – Mike Bailey, English actor
• 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer
• 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
• 2007 – Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan

Deaths

• 885 – Saint Methodius (b. c. 815)
• 1147 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
• 1199 – King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
• 1199 – Pierre Basile, French soldier
• 1362 – James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
• 1490 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
• 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)
• 1825 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
• 1833 – Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
• 1838 – José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
• 1862 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
• 1883 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
• 1899 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 1906 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• 1933 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
• 1935 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
• 1953 – Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
• 1963 – Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
• 1974 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1974 – Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (b. 1937)
• 1994 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
• 1995 – Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Robert Powell, American Cab Driver (b.1963)
• 2001 – Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
• 2003 – David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
• 2006 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Shawn Mackay, Brumbies rugby player (b. 1982)

Holidays and observances

• Tartan Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, a day set aside for the celebration of Scottish influence
• The date of organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith, Jr.. Also the date on which the same Church believes that Jesus was born.
• Chakri Day in Thailand, commemorating the reign of the Chakri Dynasty.

in the Roman Catholic Church

• Saint Marcellinus of Carthage (d. 413)
• St. Sixtus
• Blessed Notker
• Feast day of Saint Brychan, King of Brycheiniog, South Wales

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw

• selected by Poor Yorick

2005

See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ Mitch Hedberg (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov (died 6 April 1992)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ Gustave Moreau

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ Gustave Moreau

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below
Like the heaven above.

~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream... ~ Gustave Moreau

• 3 Kalki 20:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. ~ Gustave Moreau

• 3 because this quote makes one think. If all the physical and sight apparent is an illusion, it's quite frankly a nice parallel illusion drawn here by Moreau. Zarbon 16:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~

• 3 Zarbon 00:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If we don't play God, who will? ~ James D. Watson

• 3 Zarbon 00:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC) there is ambiguity and significance here beyond his intentions.
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another. ~ James Mill

• 3 Zarbon 00:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists. ~ James Mill

• 3 Zarbon 00:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Articles detailing events that are related to April 6. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 2004
  • Alias for the Xbox and PS2
  • WarioWare Inc.: Mega Party Game$ for the GameCube

From Familypedia

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.

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 sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
• 1385 - John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
• 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually becomes Cape Town.
• 1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
• 1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
• 1793 - During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins.
• 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
• 1814 - Napoleon abdicates. He is then exiled to Elba.
• 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith and others at Fayette.
• 1832 - Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
• 1860 - Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1866 - The Grand Army of the Republic , an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War , is founded. It lasts until 1956.
• 1869 - Celluloid is patented.
• 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested (in Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas.
• 1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
• 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).
• 1919 - Gandhi orders a General Strike.
• 1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
• 1924 - The first successful flight (with stops) completely around the world begins
• 1926 - Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 1930 - Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts Salt Satyagraha.
• 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, killing 203.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins; Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
• 1947 - The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
• 1957 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit.
• 1968 - In Richmond's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• 1970 - Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1984 - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
• 1992 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal
• 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
• 1996 - Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win the basketball European Championships (now Euroleague) in Paris, beating FC Barcelona by 67-66.
• 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
• 2004 - Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
• 2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

Births

• 1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1613 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
• 1630 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
• 1632 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
• 1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
• 1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
• 1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
• 1725 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
• 1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
• 1815 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
• 1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
• 1823 - Joseph Medill, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
• 1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
• 1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
• 1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
• 1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
• 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, American industrialist (d. 1981)
• 1892 - Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (d. 1981)
• 1901 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
• 1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
• 1903 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
• 1903 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
• 1909 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
• 1909 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
• 1911 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
• 1920 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate
• 1926 - Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
• 1927 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
• 1929 - André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
• 1929 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972)
• 1931 - Ivan Dixon, American actor and director
• 1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
• 1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
• 1934 - Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka
• 1937 - Merle Haggard, American musician
• 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• 1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician
• 1938 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
• 1939 - André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
• 1940 - Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
• 1941 - Phil Austin, American comedian
• 1941 - Don Prudhomme, American drag racer
• 1941 - Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
• 1942 - Barry Levinson, American film producer/director
• 1944 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
• 1947 - John Ratzenberger, American actor
• 1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1951 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
• 1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, German singer (Accept and U.D.O.)
• 1952 - Marilu Henner, American actress
• 1952 - Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
• 1955 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
• 1955 - Michael Rooker, American actor
• 1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator
• 1960 - Warren Haynes, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule)
• 1964 - Phil Gayle, English news presenter
• 1965 - Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies)
• 1967 - Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
• 1968 - Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
• 1969 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)
• 1969 - Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican-born American actress
• 1969 - Paul Rudd, American actor
• 1969 - Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver
• 1970 - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
• 1970 - Olaf Kölzig, South African-born ice hockey player
• 1971 - Lou Merloni, American baseball player
• 1973 - Donnie Edwards, American football player
• 1973 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
• 1973 - Prashanth, Indian actor
• 1973 - Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
• 1973 - Gina Yashere, English comedian
• 1974 - Adithya, Indian actor
• 1974 - Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
• 1975 - Zach Braff, American actor
• 1976 - Candace Cameron, American actress
• 1976 - Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
• 1977 - Andy Phillips, American Baseball Player
• 1978 - Myleene Klass, British singer (Hear'Say)
• 1978 - Blaine Neal, American baseball player
• 1981 - Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer
• 1982 - Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
• 1982 - Michael Guy Chislett, American/Australian musician (The Academy Is...)
• 1983 - Diora Baird, American actress
• 1983 - Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
• 1984 - Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter (Say Anything)
• 1985 - Garrett Zablocki, (Senses Fail)
• 1987 - Levi Porter, English footballer
• 1987 - Hilary Rhoda, American supermodel
• 1988 - Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer
• 1988 - Mike Bailey, English actor
• 2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan

Deaths

• 1147 - Frederick II (b. 1090)
• 1199 - King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
• 1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
• 1362 - James I, 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, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
• 1707 - Willem van de Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
• 1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
• 1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
• 1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
• 1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
• 1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
• 1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
• 1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• 1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
• 1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
• 1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
• 1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
• 1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
• 1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
• 1974 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
• 1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
• 1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
• 1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (b. 1937)
• 1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
• 1996 - Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
• 1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
• 1998 - Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
• 1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
• 2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
• 2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
• 2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
• 2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
• 2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
• 2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
• 2005 - Rainier III (b. 1923)
• 2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

• Tartan Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, a day set aside for the celebration of Scottish influence
• The date of organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith. Also the date on which The Church teaches that Jesus was born.
• Chakri Day in Thailand, commemorating the reign of the Chakri Dynasty.

Liturgical Feast days

in the Roman Catholic Church

• Saint Marcellinus of Carthage (d. 413)
• St. Sixtus
• Blessed Notker
• Feast day of Saint Brychan, King of Brycheiniog, South Wales

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada