What Happened on April 6
Important Events
- 46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
- 1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
- 1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
- 1994 Rwandan Genocide begins with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira with their plane being shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations. Those responsible have never been identified.
April 6 in Film & TV
- 1889 George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time
April 6 in Music
- 1974 19th Eurovision Song Contest: ABBA for Sweden wins singing "Waterloo" in Brighton
April 6 in Sport
- 1896 I Summer Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece; American athlete James Connolly Olympic becomes first modern Olympic champion when he wins the triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump); later 3rd in the long jump, 2nd in the high jump
Famous Birthdays
Raphael
(1483 - 1520)- James Watson
91 Years Old - Billy Dee Williams
82 Years Old - Merle Haggard
(1937 - 2016) - Paul Rudd
50 Years Old - Zach Braff
44 Years Old
Raphael
James Watson
Billy Dee Williams
Merle Haggard
Paul Rudd
Zach BraffWould You Believe?
First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
On April 6, 2016
Famous Weddings
- 1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
- 1896 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (63) weds Mary Scott (37) at St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City
- 1920 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel
Famous Divorces
- 2012 Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage
Richard the Lionheart
Igor Stravinsky
Chiang Kai-shek
Isaac Asimov
Juvénal Habyarimana
Tammy WynetteApril in History
![The Computer That Came By Truck]()
The Computer That Came By Truck
It didn't have the sleek lines that Steve Jobs would admire and it needed to be carried on a truck, but the computer age had finally arrived in rural England.
April 3, 1957![Lionheart Richard, The Stranger King]()
Lionheart Richard, The Stranger King
Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood’s king is considered one of the great English monarchs. Yet he cost his country a fortune and barely lived there.
April 6, 1199![The Man Who Sold His Wife]()
The Man Who Sold His Wife
Most modern readers believe Thomas Hardy was plunging into deep fiction when he wrote about a man selling his wife in, The Mayor of Casterbridge. He wasn't.
April 7, 1832![Step Aboard the Titanic – Las Vegas Style]()
Step Aboard the Titanic – Las Vegas Style
Even by Las Vegas standards it was controversial, a $1.2 billion recreation of the doomed Titanic, along with the iceberg that caused its destruction.
April 8, 1999
