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

  • 1250 –
    Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
  • 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.
  • 1782 –
    Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
  • 1793 –
    During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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 reach the North Pole.
  • 1917 –
    World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
  • 1923 –
    The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: the Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
  • 1972 –
    Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
  • 1973 –
    The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
  • 1974 –
    ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
  • 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.

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