About April 6
April 6, 2024 is the 97th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 298 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.
- 1320 –The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
- 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.
- 1652 –At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
- 1667 –An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
- 1793 –During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
- 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.
- 1888 –Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 1893 –Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1945 –World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- 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.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- 2004 –Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
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