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.
- 1199 –King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
- 1652 –At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- 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: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- 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.
- 1962 –Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
- 1965 –Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- 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.
- 2010 –Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
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