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