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 
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 
1483 – Raphael, Italian penter (d. 1520)
1773 – James Mill, Scots historian, economist an philosopher (d. 1836)
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)
1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor an entrepreneur
1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian poleetician, 54t Preses o Ecuador
1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor

 Daiths 
1199 – Richard I o Ingland (b. 1157)
1520 – Raphael, Italian penter (b. 1483)
1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norse mathemateecian (b. 1802)
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)
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)

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Category:Days o the year