6 Aprile

The 6t o Aprile is the 96t day o the year (97t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 269 days ti come.

Events

1320: Copy o the Declaration o Aiberbrothock

1896: Openin o the Simmer Olympics in Athens

1896: Snowdon Muntain Railwey, North-Wast Wales

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio an Cato the Yoonger in the battle o Thapsus.
• 1199 – Keeng Richard I o Ingland dies frae an infection follaein the removal o an arrow frae his shoulder.
• 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their unthirldom bi signin the Declaration o Aiberbrothock.
• 1667 – Dubrovnik is destroyed bi a yirdquauk.
• 1814 – Napoleon is exiled tae the isle o Elba.
• 1815 – The Canton o Geneva jyns the Swiss Confederation, acomin its 22nt canton.
• 1830 – The oreeginal Mormon Kirk is foondit.
• 1841 – John Tyler is inauguratit as the 10t Preses o the Unitit States.
• 1862 – American Ceevil War: The Battle o Shiloh, the bloodiest battle o the war, stairts.
• 1886 – Vancouver, on the wast coast o Canadae, is incorporatit as a ceety.
• 1896 – In Athens, the openin o the first modren Olympic Gemmes is celebratit, 1,500 year efter the oreeginal gemmes are banned bi Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1896 – The Snowdon Muntain Railwey in Gwynedd, North-Wast Wales, offeecially opens.
• 1909 – Robert Peary claims tae hae reached the North Pole.
• 1917 – Warld War I: The Unitit States declares war on Germany.
• 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
• 1973 – The Pioneer 11 spacecraft is launched.
• 1974 – ABBA win the Euroveesion Sang Contest in Brighton.
• 1994 – A plane carryin the Preses o Rwanda an Burundi is shot doon, stairtin the Rwandan Genocide.
• 2005 – Albert II, Prince o Monaco comes tae the throne.
• 2005 – Jalal Talabani becomes Preses o Iraq.
• 2009 – L'Aquila, central Italy, is hit bi a major yirdquauk.
• 2016 – Emmanuel Macron launches his bid tae be electit Preses o Fraunce.
• 2018 – Umwhile Sooth Korean Preses Park Geun-hye is sentenced tae 24 year in preeson for corruption.

Births

Paul Rudd

• 1483 – Raphael, Italian penter (d. 1520)
• 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot (d. 1807)
• 1765 – Charles Felix o Sardinie (d. 1831)
• 1773 – James Mill, Scots historian, economist an philosopher (d. 1836)
• 1820 – Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
• 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French penter (d. 1898)
• 1878 – John Hunter, Scots fitbawer (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor o Wast Germany (d. 1988)
• 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northren Erse meenister an politeecian, 2nt First Meenister o Northren Ireland (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Neil Mochan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1994)
• 1928 – James Watson, American molecular biologist an geneticist
• 1937 – Merle Haggard, American sangster (d. 2016)
• 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor an entrepreneur
• 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French sangster an sangwriter
• 1951 – Anne Kirk, Scots dairts player
• 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German sangster-sangwriter (Accept an U.D.O.)
• 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian poleetician, 54t Preses o Ecuador
• 1964 – David Woodard, American conductor an writer
• 1965 – Andy Walker, Scots fitbawer
• 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor
• 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor
• 1990 – Kate Forbes, Scots politeecian

Daiths

• 1199 – Richard I o Ingland (b. 1157)
• 1440 – Henry Wardlaw, Scots kirk leader
• 1520 – Raphael, Italian penter (b. 1483)
• 1528 – Albrecht Dürer, German airtist (b. 1471)
• 1571 – John Hamilton, Scots prelate an politeecian (b. 1512)
• 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norse mathemateecian (b. 1802)
• 1937 – Pat Reilly, Scots fitbaw manager (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian biologist an immunologist (b. 1870)
• 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Roushie componer (b. 1882)
• 1972 – Heinrich Lübke, Preses o Germany (b. 1894)
• 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Roushie-American writer (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politeecian, 1st Preses o Tunisie (b. 1903)
• 2005 – Rainier III, Prince o Monaco (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Mickey Rooney, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2016 – Merle Haggard, American sangster (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Don Rickles, American actor an comedian (b. 1926)
• 2019 – Ernest Hollings, American politeecian (b. 1922)
• 2019 – David J. Thouless, Scots pheesicist (b. 1934)

Halidays

• Tartan Day (Canadae, Unitit States, Scots fowk)
• Stairt o the Financial Year (Unitit Kinrick)
• Chakri Day (Thailand)