About April 6
April 6, 2025 is the 96th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 317 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 6
- 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.
- 1453 –Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
- 1667 –An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
- 1830 –The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
- 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.
- 1869 –Celluloid is patented.
- 1888 –Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 1919 –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- 1923 –The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
- 1926 –Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
- 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 –Travelers Group announces 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.
- 2008 –2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.
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