About April 6
April 6, 2024 is the 97th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 298 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 6
- 1327 –The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
- 1580 –One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
- 1808 –John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America’s first millionaire.
- 1812 –British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
- 1861 –First performance of Arthur Sullivan’s debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
- 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.
- 1903 –The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: the Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- 1962 –Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
- 1965 –Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- 1965 –The British Government announces 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 in a shootout.
- 1982 –Estonian Communist Party bureau declares “fight against bourgeois TV” — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
- 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 reaching India.
- 2009 –A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
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