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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 24, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,712,361,600 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 ‘enneacontaheptagon’ day.
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 298 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 4,124 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.
- 1199 –King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
- 1453 –Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
- 1869 –Celluloid is patented.
- 1909 –Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: the Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- 1965 –The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
- 2004 –Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
Who were born on April 6?
- 1483 –Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
- 1895 –Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (d. 1960)
- 1909 –Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
- 1932 –Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004)
- 1941 –Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, American drag racer
- 1941 –Hans W. Geissendörfer, German filmmaker
- 1967 –Jonathan Firth, British actor
- 1970 –Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
- 1983 –Diora Baird, American actress and model
- 1987 –Hilary Rhoda, American model
Who died on April 6?
- 1362 –James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
- 1933 –Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
- 1953 –Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
- 1959 –Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (b. 1895)
- 1974 –Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
- 1979 –Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1893)
- 1994 –Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
- 1998 –Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2006 –Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
- 2006 –Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
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