About April 6
April 6, 2021 is the 96th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 301 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.
- 1385 –John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
- 1808 –John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America’s first millionaire.
- 1814 –Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restorationanniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.)
- 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.
- 1888 –Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 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.
- 1923 –The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
- 1929 –Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- 1930 –Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- 1941 –World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- 1957 –Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
- 1965 –Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- 1970 –Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
- 1974 –ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
- 1994 –The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
- 2008 –2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.
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