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, 29,064,960 minutes 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
- 46 BC –Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
- 1667 –An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
- 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.)
- 1895 –Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- 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).
- 1919 –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- 1965 –The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
- 1973 –Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- 1974 –ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
- 2009 –A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
Who were born on April 6?
- 1894 –Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1911 –Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1928 –James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
- 1932 –Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004)
- 1937 –Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- 1947 –Mike Worboys, British mathematician
- 1969 –Louie Spence, English dancer/choreographer and TV personality
- 1972 –Jason Hervey, American actor
- 1975 –Zach Braff, American actor
- 1985 –Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on April 6?
- 1490 –Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1443)
- 1707 –Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
- 1755 –Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
- 1825 –Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
- 1998 –Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (b. 1958)
- 1998 –Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
- 1999 –Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
- 2001 –Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
- 2004 –Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
- 2007 –Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
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