April 6

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 6. From 1900 until now. April 6 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Paul Rudd (1969), Zach Braff (1975) and Pauline Lafont (1963). Several movies were released around April 6 over the years, such as Rear Window in 1990 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Cloud-Capped Star in 1960 directed by Ritwik Ghatak.
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Holidays

Saint Isolde
Tartan Day, a day set aside for the celebration of Scottish influence.
The date of organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the start of the Restoration Movement by Joseph Smith Junior. Also the date on which this church believes Jesus Christ was born.
In Thailand, April 6th marks Chakri Day - a day to commemorate King Rama I, founder of the Chakri dynasty.
Saint Balderik
Saint Marcellinus of Carthage (d.413)
St. Sixtus
Saint Wineboud
Blessed Notker
The start of the tax year in the United Kingdom (arising from the 11 day correction to March 25 at the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752).
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Events

2019 Second Libyan Civil War, 2019 Western Libya offensive: Militias loyal to the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord launch a counterattack on Libyan National Army troops in the southern outskirts of Tripoli. (The Washington Post)Libyan National Army Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar declares a no-fly zone for military aircraft over western Libya, after LNA forces were targeted by airstrikes from GNA warplanes that took off from Misrata Airport. (Al Arabiya)
2018 2018 Gaza border protests: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warns Israel to use "extreme caution" as further protests are held at the Gazan border. Israeli Defence Forces open fire again, killing at least seven Palestinians. (The Guardian)Protestors begin burning tyres at the border. (The Guardian)
2017 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing: Russian authorities discover and deactivate an explosive device in a Saint Petersburg flat, during ongoing raids occurring in response to the bombing. (BBC)
2016 Syrian Civil War: Aleppo offensive (April 2016): The Syrian Army and its allies launch an offensive south of Aleppo. (Jerusalem Post)
2015 Twitter and YouTube are both inaccessible for hours in Turkey; part of a crack-down on social media by the government there. (Reuters)
2014 Syrian Civil War:: Mortar fire kills two people near the Damascus Opera House. (AP via Yahoo! News)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba. (Reuters)
2012 The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.
2011 2011 Yemeni protests: six people are killed and hundreds injured in Yemen violence. (CNN)
2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2009 North Carolina Tar Heels overwhelms Michigan State Spartans 89-72 in the final of the NCAA Tournament.
2008 Mark Penn resigns as chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign. This comes in the wake of revelations that he performed lobbying work for the Colombian government, regarding a free trade pact that Senator Clinton opposes. (NPR)
2007 Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy: Monica Goodling, who was an assistant counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, resigns after refusing to testify before the Congress. (BBC)
2006 An earthquake of 5.5 magnitude is reported in Western Gujarat in India.
2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2004 The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress rules that the right to amend the Basic Law of Hong Kong belongs to the National People's Congress. The Standing Committee also issued an "interpretation" (effectively an amendment) of the Basic Law which set out an additional step required for any changes in Hong Kong's political structures. (CNN)
2003 British forces step up their presence in the southern Iraq city of Basra. According to embedded journalists, the citizens of Basra braved gunfire to dance in the streets and cheer for the British troops. UPI's Chief International Correspondent Martin Walker claimed that he had witnessed at least one Basra citizen kiss a British tank.
2002 A ship spills 340,000 litres of crude oil off the southeast Louisiana coast, USA.
2001 Film: ''Along Came a Spider'' starring Morgan Freeman
1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1997 3 Sisters closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
1995 Having Our Say opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1993 Florida Marlins first loss ever (4-2 to Los Angeles Dodgers).
1992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1990 Robert Mapplethorpe's quotThe Perfect Momentquot show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1986 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley.
1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)- Challenger 5 is launched; first time 11 people in space.
1983 Caps 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1981 Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo.
1980 Post It Notes are introduced.
1978 Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inning and 193 to win Ranji Trophy.
1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1975 Night... Made America Famous closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
1974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam
1973 Harbor strike in Gent / Antwerp, Belgium
1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan.
1970 BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first edition of ''PM''.
1968 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis.
1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government.
1966 Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India.
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") launched; first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite.
1964 Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations.
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.
1959 31st Academy Awards: Gigi, Susan Hayward, and David Niven win.
1958 Arnold Palmer wins first major golf tournament-the Masters.
1957 New York City ends trolley car service
1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison.
1955 3 for Tonight opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
1952 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins his second Masters golf tournament, shooting a 286.
1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
1947 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins his second Masters golf tournament, shooting a 281.
1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain, France overrun by Germans.
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1939 Great Britain and Poland sign military pact.
1936 Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses and sinks 371 more.
1934 418 Lutheran ministers are arrested in Germany.
1931 1st broadcast of Little Orphan Annie on NBC-radio
1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
1929 Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1920 French troop attacks Main / Darmstadt / Hanau
1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1916 German parliament authorizes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1914 The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is begun in Hartford, CT by Hiram Maxim and Clarence Tuska.
1912 Electric starter first appeared in cars.
1911 During the Battle of Deciq, Dede Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malesori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
1909 1st credit union forms in US
1905 ''Lochner v. New York'': The Supreme Court of the United States invalidates New York's 8-hour-day law.
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws).
1900 James J Jeffries knocks out Jack Finnegan in one for heavyweight boxing title.
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Famous Birthday

Paul Rudd: American actor.
Zach Braff: American actor.
Pauline Lafont: French actress, daughter of Diourka...
Rick Levine (astrologer)
Christian Ranucci: French criminal.
Tadeusz Kantor: Polish painter, set designer and theater...
Yannick Bellon: French documentary film maker and film...
Ram Dass: American educator and author, fired as a...
Pietro Vierchowod
Charles Sobhraj: French serial killer of Indian and...
Anita Pallenberg: Italian-English model actress and...
Jérémy Ferrari
Michele Bachmann: American politican, a Congresswoman from...
Merle Haggard: American musician, country-western...
Marilu Henner: American actress producer and author.
Candace Cameron Bure: American actress.
Billy Dee Williams
James D Watson
Myleene Klass: British singer.
Oliver Miller: NBA forward / center (Toronto Raptors).
Rafael Correa: Ecuadorian economist and politician 54th...
John Ratzenberger: American actor who established himself...
Michael Rooker: American actor.
Patrick Hernandez: French disco singer formerly pop-rock,...
Franck Black
Anton Geesink: Dutch athlete, a giant Dutchman who...
Adrián Alonso: Mexican actor.
Hilary Rhoda: American model.
Roy Thinnes: American actor.
Barry Levinson: American actor director producer and...
André Previn: American pianist composer and conductor.
Cathy Jones: Canadian comedienne, writer and star of...
Ian Paisley: Ian Paisley was a politician and...
2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Jonathan Firth: English actor.
Patti Catalano: American field and track champion.
Marion Greenwood: American painter who studied in Paris,...
Bobbi Starr: American pornographic actress.
Gheorghe Zamfir: Romanian flute player and composer.
Janet Lynn: American skating champion, an Olympic...
Joi Lansing: American model and actress (d. 1972).
Prashant (actor)
Eliza Coupe: American actress.
Diora Baird: American model and actress.
Alana Austin
Olaf Kölzig: South African-German ice hockey player...
Daniel Vernay: French graduate from the École...
Kurt Georg Kiesinger: third West German chancellor (1966-69),...
Bison Dele: American basketball player with the...
Jean-Pierre Changeux: French neuroscientist known for his...
Udo Dirkschneider: German singer-songwriter (Accept and...
Julio Cesar Melatti
Povl Bang-Jenson: Danish lawyer in 1937, Emissary to...
Paul Daniels: British entertainer, magician and former...
Philippe Garrel: French director, cinematographer,...
Henri Vilbert: France Actor.
Patrick Cazal
Dickey Simpkins: American basketball player; Forward,...
Carla Peterson
Jean-Marc Boivin: French mountaineer, extreme skier,...
Jean-Louis Dumont
Oswaldo Piazza
Gerry Mulligan: British saxophonist / orchestra leader...
Rory Bremner: Scottish-British comedian, impersonator,...
Julien Torma: French writer, playwright and poet (d....
Tommy Greene: American pro baseball pitcher who signed...
Rie Miyazawa: Japanese model and actress.
Marc Dumoulin
Edd Miller: American musician, a performer in piano...
Lieve Slegers: Belgian track and field star who was...
Heidi Mount
Bill Brooks: NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills).
Tanja Poutiainen: Finnish skier.
Joel West
Michel Brunet (paleontologist)
Imani Coppola: American singer-songwriter and violinist...
Derrick May: American electronic musician Techno...
Lori Heuring: American actress.
Mario Merola
Martin Hansson
Randy Weston: American jazz pianist and composer.
Vincent Gauthier-Manuel
Andrew Weatherall
Judith McConnell
Sterling Sharpe: American athlete, wide receiver for the...
Bert Blyleven: Dutch-American baseball player and...
Alain Weill
Farung Yuthithum
Bret Boone: American baseball player and manager.
Rick Cosnett: TV Actor.
Ken (singer)
Peyton List (1998)
Charlie McDermott: TV Actor.
Christiane Lecocq
Kari Jobe: American singer-songwriter.
Teddy Sears
André Bernard (conductor)
Julie Johnston: Soccer Player.
Mingyu
Michaël Ciani: French footballer.
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Famous Deaths

Isaac Asimov: Russian-American biochemist, science...
Greer Garson: Anglo-American actress who was very...
Wendy O Williams: American singer (Plasmatics) (Born...
Corin Redgrave: British actor, political activist and...
Ronald E Evans: astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart...
Red Norvo: American vibraphone player and composer...
Niki Sullivan: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Maurice Stokes: American basketball player (Born 1933).
Ana Maria: Salvador guerilla leader, murdered.
Cyprien Ntaryamira: Burundian politician (Born 1956).
Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer: dies on 78th birthday.
Stefan Surzynski composer: dies at age 63.
Benjamin M Telders: president (Dutch Liberal States Party),...
Willem Dudok: Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall),...
Milton Ager: US composer, dies at age 85.
M Marie Widlow: softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957),...
Patricia Louise Dalton: chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at...
Giuseppi Radiciotti: Composer, dies at 73.
Theo Bosch: humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at...
Vieno J Sukselainen: Prime Minister of Finland (1959-61),...
Jack Kent Cooke: NFL owner (Washington Redskins), dies at...
Chiang Kai-Shek: Chinese military leader, general and...
Igor Stravinsky: Russian composer and conductor,...
Idris Davies: Welsh poet and author (d. 1953).
Nicolas Nabokov: Russian-American composer and educator...
Wilma Mankiller: Native-American activist, chief of the...
Agatha Uwilingiyimana Rwanda/first female Prime Minister in Africa: assassinated.
Halfdan Cleve: Composer, dies at 71.
Andres Isasi: Composer, dies at 49.
Vaclav Kapral: Composer, dies at 58.
J C Heldring: Dutch businessman, dies at 74.
Julia Faye: Actress (10 Commandments.
Robert Courtneidge: British theater producer.
Igor F Stravinsky: Russian composer (Le Sacre du...
Ruth P Thomson: Writer.
Nancy Hawkes: (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73.
Divya Bharati: "Baby Doll" Indies actress (Diwana),...
Cyprian Niayamira: President of Burundi (1993-94),...
Dick Cary: Jazz musician, dies at 77.
Edwin Arlington Robinson: American poet (Born 1869).
Otto Struve: Russian-born astronomer (Born 1897).
Willem Marinus Dudok: Dutch architect (Born 1884).
Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer (Working People): dies at age 57.
Jules J B V Bordet: Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel Prize...
Bobby Hutton: US Black Panther leader, shot to death.
Reinoud Anders: Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at...
Ral Donner: singer/narrator, dies at age 41.
Jimmy Kenndy: British songwriter ("South of the...
Hedi Amira Nouira: Prime Minister of Tunisia (1970-80),...
Elizabeth Bacon Custer: wife of George Armstrong Custer (Born...
Leo Aryeh Mayer: Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic...
Sir Hudson Fysh: Australian aviator and businessman (Born...
Juvenal Habyarimana: Rwandan politician (Born 1937).
Ioannis Alevras: Greek politician (Born 1912).
Norbert Schmitz: German footballer (Born 1958).
Charles Pettigrew: American singer (Born 1963).
Gerald Emmett Carter: Canadian cardinal (Born 1912).
Maggie Dixon: American college basketball coach (Born...
Francis L Kellogg: U.
Shawn Mackay: Australian rugby player (Born 1982).
Stefanos Stratigos: Greek actor (Born 1926).
Sam Sheppard: American physician who was accused of...
Babatunde Olatunji: Nigerian-American drummer educator and...
Herbert Backe: German agronomist and politician (d....
Larisa Bogoraz: Russian linguist and activist (d. 2004).
Giovanni Amendola: Antifascist / editor-in-chief (Il...
Sidney Franklin: American bullfighter (Born 1903).
Edward Arlington Robinson: US poet.
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