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.
- 1782 –Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1903 –The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
- 1941 –World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- 1945 –World War II: the Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- 1947 –The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
- 2008 –2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.
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