About April 6
April 6, 2023 is the 96th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 310 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 6
- 1453 –Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
- 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.
- 1888 –Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 1909 –Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- 1911 –During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- 1919 –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- 1929 –Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- 1941 –World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- 1968 –In Richmond, Indiana’s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
- 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.
- 1984 –Members of Cameroon’s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
- 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.
- 2010 –Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
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