What are the important events that happened on April 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 6 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,743,897,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontahexagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,489 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 6 Historical Events
- 402 –Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
- 1327 –The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
- 1869 –Celluloid is patented.
- 1909 –Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- 1929 –Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- 1957 –Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
- 1973 –Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- 1974 –ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
- 1998 –Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
Who were born on April 6?
- 1915 –Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director (d. 1990)
- 1934 –Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
- 1955 –Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer
- 1955 –Michael Rooker, American actor
- 1969 –Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver
- 1970 –Olaf Kölzig, South African/German ice hockey player
- 1972 –Ami James, Israeli/American tattoo artist
- 1973 –Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer
- 1983 –Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
- 1987 –Levi Porter, English footballer
Who died on April 6?
- 1755 –Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
- 1829 –Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
- 1899 –Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
- 1974 –Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
- 1974 –Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
- 1976 –Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
- 1998 –Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
- 2000 –Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
- 2003 –Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
- 2005 –Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
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