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

## Births

*1483 &ndash; Raphael, Italian penter (d. 1520)
*1773 &ndash; James Mill, Scots historian, economist an philosopher (d. 1836)
*1904 &ndash; Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor o Wast Germany (d. 1988)
*1926 &ndash; Ian Paisley, Northren Erse meenister an politeecian, 2nt First Meenister o Northren Ireland (d. 2014)
*1947 &ndash; John Ratzenberger, American actor an entrepreneur
*1963 &ndash; Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian poleetician, 54t Preses o Ecuador
*1969 &ndash; Paul Rudd, American actor

## Daiths
*1199 &ndash; Richard I o Ingland (b. 1157)
*1520 &ndash; Raphael, Italian penter (b. 1483)
*1829 &ndash; Niels Henrik Abel, Norse mathemateecian (b. 1802)
*1992 &ndash; Isaac Asimov, Roushie-American writer (b. 1920)
*2000 &ndash; Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politeecian, 1st Preses o Tunisie (b. 1903)
*2005 &ndash; Rainier III, Prince o Monaco (b. 1923)
*2014 &ndash; Mickey Rooney, American actor (b. 1920)
*2017 &ndash; Don Rickles, American actor an comedian (b. 1926)
*2019 &ndash; Ernest Hollings, American politeecian (b. 1922)
*2019 &ndash; 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)