On this day - Apr 06

• 0648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
• 0402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia .
• 1199 - King Richard I of England dies (b. 1157) .
• 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of St. Claire in Avignon .
• 1348 - Petrarch's Laura dies of plague.
• 1384 - Batalha dos Atoleiros entre portugueses e tropas de D. João I de Castela .
• 1385 - João I de Portugal , mestre de Aviz é aclamado rei nas Cortes de Coimbra, tornando-se no primeiro rei de Portugal da Dinastia de Aviz .
• 1453 - Inicia-se o cerco a Constantinopla.
• 1483 - Rafael, was born (d. 06 Apr. 1520). Italian painter and architect.
• 1500 - Frota portuguesa parte para as Índias a comando de Tristão da Cunha .
• 1520 - (Raffaelo Sanzio) Rafael dies in Rome, on his 37th birthday. He was born on in Urbino One of the most frequently discussed and best-loved paintings of the Renaissance is Raphael's so-called Sistine Madonna.
• 1528 - Albrecht Dürer, dies (b. 21 May 1471) Artist and mathematician.
• 1535 - Nascimento de D. Dinis (filho de D. João III com a infanta D. Catarina) .
• 1589 - Jan Tilens (or Johannes, Tilen or Thielens), was born (d. 25 Jul 1630). Flemish artist.
• 1624 - Jean-Baptiste Saive de Namur, dies (b. 1540). Flemish artist.
• 1641 - Domenico Zampieri “il Domenichino”, dkies (b. 21 Oct 1581). Italian painter.
• 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
• 1660 - Michelangelo Cerquozzi “delle Battaglie”, dies (b. 02 Feb 1602). Roman painter.
• 1667 - Jean Tassel, French artist born on 20 March 1608.
• 1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French philosopher, playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs).
• 1672 - France declares war on Netherlands.
• 1684 - Domenico Maria Canuti, dies (b. 05 Apr 1625). Bolognese painter.
• 1732 - Nace José Celestino Mutis, matemático y botánico español.
• 1765 - Sai a lei portuguesa que reinvoca o princípio do beneplácito régio, para impedir os efeitos do breve Apostolicum Pascendi, pelo qual o papa confirmava de novo o instituto da Companhia de Jesus.
• 1766 - Wilhelm Alexander Wolfgang von Kobell was born (d. 15 Jul 1853). German painter.
• 1773 - James Mill, was born in Scotland. Philosopher / historian (History of British India)
• 1777 - Jan Evert Morel, Dutch artist born on 08 February 1777.
• 1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
• 1804 - The first scientifically recorded meteor lands in Possil, in north Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born. Poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)/Mrs Robert Browning.
• 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
• 1815 - Robert Volkmann, was born (d. 1883). Composer.
• 1819 - Georg Bergmann, was born (d. 14 Oct 1870). German artist.
• 1822 - Jan David Col, was born (d. 1900). Belgian artist.
• 1823 - Joseph Medill, was born (d. 1899). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1824 - Lucas Schaeffels, was born (d. 17 Sep 1885). Belgian artist.
• 1825 - Willem van Leen, dies (b. 19 Feb 1753). Dutch artist.
• 1826 - Gustave Moreau, was born (d. 18 Apr 1898). French Symbolist painter.
• 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette Township, New York.
• 1832 - Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
• 1838 - Morte de José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, o 'Patriarca da Independência do Brasil', em Niterói-RJ. Político e cientista brasileiro.
• 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
• 1849 - John William “Nino” Waterhouse, was born (d. 10 Feb 1917). English painter.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins - In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
• 1865 - Nascimento de José Augusto Alves Roçadas (militar português) .
• 1866 - Butch Cassidy, was born (d. 1909). Outlaw.
• 1869 - Celluloid is patented.
• 1874 - Harry Houdini, was born (d. 1926). Magician.
• 1874 - Ignacio María González assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência da República Dominicana .
• 1878 - Erich Mühsam, was born (d. 1934). German author.
• 1883 - Benjamin Raymond, dies (b. 1801). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1883 - D. José Sebastião Neto é nomeado 12º Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa .
• 1884 - Walter Huston, was born (d. 1950). Academy Award winning actor.
• 1886 - Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.
• 1888 - Daniel Andersson was born. Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader) .
• 1890 - Anthony Herman GerardFokker, was born (d. 1939). Dutch designer of aircraft.
• 1890 - Nascia André-Louis Danjon (m. em 21 Abr 1967). Astrónomo francês notado pelos importantes desenvolvimentos em instrumentos astronômicos e pelos estudos da rotação da Terra. A Escala Danjon para determinar a coloração da Lua durante os eclipses ainda é utilizada para esse propósito.
• 1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, was born (d. 1981). American industrialist.
• 1892 - Lowell Thomas, was born (d. 1981). Travel writer.
• 1893 - George Vicat Cole, dies /b. 17 Apr 1833). English painter.
• 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
• 1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. American James Connolly, won the first Gold Medal.
• 1903 - Mickey Cochrane, was born (d. 1962). Baseball Hall of Famer .
• 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.
• 1903 - Em Paris é revelado que oficiais do exército forjaram documentos relacionados ao caso Dreyfus.
• 1903 - Nascia Harold Eugene Edgerton (m. em 04 Jan 1990). Engenheiro eléctrico americano e fotógrafo, conhecido pelas técnicas em desenvolvimento da fotografia de alta velocidade e aplicando-as para vários usos científicos.
• 1906 - Alexander Kielland, dies. Norwegian author .
• 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
• 1912 - Giovanni Pascoli, dies. Italian poet and teacher of Literature.
• 1914 - George Reeves was born in Ashland KY, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind) .
• 1917- World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress (Wikisource) .
• 1919 - Se funda el Racing Club de Montevideo, Uruguay.
• 1921 - Nascimento de Cacilda Becker Yáconis, atriz de teatro brasileira, em Pirassununga-SP.
• 1921 - São depositados no Mosteiro da Batalha os corpos de dois Soldados Desconhecidos, mortos em combate, em África e na Flandres.
• 1926 - Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, WA to Elko, NV. Varney is the root company of United Airlines.
• 1926 - Gil Kane, was born (d. 2000). Cartoonist.
• 1926 - Ian Paisley, was born. United Kingdom politician .
• 1926 - Sergio Franchi, was born (d. 1990). Singer, actor.
• 1927 - Gerry Mulligan, was born (d. 1996). Musician.
• 1928 - James D. Watson, was born. Geneticist.
• 1929 - André Previn, was born. Composer, conductor.
• 1930 - Gandhi raised a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he started Salt Satyagraha.
• 1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
• 1930 - Will Rogers starts broadcasting The Will Rogers Program on radio.
• 1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
• 1931 - William Lionel Wyllie, dies (b. 06 Jul 1851). English painter and engraver.
• 1933 - Roy Goode, was born. Legal academic .
• 1934 - Egipto vence a Palestina en Jerusalém e é o primeiro país africano a classificar-se para o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1934 - Morte do pintor brasileiro Ismael Nery (pioneiro do surrealismo no Brasil) .
• 1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, dies (b. 1869). Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
• 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia killing 203.
• 1937 - Merle Haggard, was born. Country musician.
• 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, was born. Actor .
• 1938 - Paul Daniels, was born. Magician .
• 1941 - Phil Austin, was born. Comedian.
• 1941 - Hans W. Geissendörfer, was born. German film director .
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins - Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
• 1942 - Barry Levinson, was born. Producer, director .
• 1943 - Funda-se o Goiás Esporte Clube, de Goiânia, Brasil.
• 1943 - Joaquim Agostinho was born, Portuguese cyclist, dead tragically running.
• 1944 - Felicity Palmer, was born. English soprano .
• 1945 - Bob Marley, was born. Reggae musician/singer (Whalers - No Woman, no cry) .
• 1947 - John Ratzenberger, was born. Actor (Cheers) .
• 1951 - Bert Blyleven, was born. Baseball pitcher .
• 1952 - Marilu Henner, was born. Actress .
• 1955 - Michael Rooker, was born. Actor.
• 1955 - Yemen failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam.
• 1959 - 31st Academy Awards "Gigi", Susan Hayward & David Niven win .
• 1961 - Jules Bordet, dies. Belgian immunologist and microbiologist .
• 1962 - Portugal adere ao Acordo Geral sobre as Tarifas Aduaneiras e Comércio (GATT), acabando com as teses "isolacionistas" que tinham marcado até aí a política económica do regime do Estado Novo.
• 1963 - A Iugoslávia se torna uma república soviética.
• 1963 - Otto Struve, dies (b 12 Aug 1897).
• 1964 - Se crea la Universidad Católica de La Plata.
• 1965 - Early Bird, world's first commercial communication satellite, launched .
• 1965 - Frank Black, a.k.a Charles Thompson, was born. Singer, songwriter (Pixies).
• 1966 - Julia Faye actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73.
• 1968 - In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la".
• 1969 - Bret Boone, was born. Major League Baseball All-Star .
• 1969 - Ari Meyers, was born. Actress .
• 1970 - Olaf Kölzig, was born. NHL goalie .
• 1971 - Igor Stravinsky, dies (b. 1882). Composer.
• 1972 - Scott Countryman, was born. Adult movie star .
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1973 - A Suécia é a primeira nação ocidental a reconhecer a Coréia do Norte .
• 1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins.
• 1974 - In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo".
• 1975 - Morte do líder chinês Chiang Kai-Shek .
• 1976 - Candace Cameron, was born. Actress.
• 1978 - Nicolas Nabokov composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74 .
• 1979 - Julio Grondona asume la presidencia de la AFA.
• 1984 -Em São Paulo, 1.3 milhões de pessoas participam da passeata “Diretas Já”, exigindo eleições diretas para a presidência do País.
• 1985 - Sudan suspends constitution after coup under General Swarreddahab .
• 1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
• 1987 - El Papa Juan Pablo II llega a Argentina en su segunda visita pastoral al país.
• 1988 - Os presidentes brasileiro, argentino e uruguaio, José Sarney, Raúl Alfonsín e Julio Maria Sanguinetti, respectivamente, assinam o protocolo de criação do Mercosul.
• 1991 - O jogador argentino Diego Maradona é suspenso por doping .
• 1992 - Isaac Asimov, dies (b,. 1920) . Author.
• 1992 - Molly Picon, dies. Actress.
• 1992 - Pjetër Arbnori assume a presidência da Albânia .
• 1992 - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo.
• 1993 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
• 1993 - Nova Zelândia ratifica a Convenção sobre os Direitos da Criança - ONU de 20 Nov 1989 .
• 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana (b. 1937) and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira (b. 1956) is shot down by extremists.
• 1996 - Greer Garson, dies (b. 1904) . Actress.
• 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
• 1998 - Francia y el Reino Unido ratifican el Tratado de Prohibición Total de Pruebas Nucleares.
• 1998 - Tammy Wynette, diies (b. 1942). Country musician.
• 2000 - Habib Bourguiba, dies (b. 1903) . President of Tunisia -
• 2002 - José Manuel Durão Barroso assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 2002 - Paulo Sacadura Cabral Portas é nomeado ministro da Defesa Nacional (Portugal)
• 2003 - David Bloom, dies. NBC reporter in Iraq War.
• 2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, dies (b. 1927). Jazz musician.
• 2003 - Morte do filósofo argentino Oscar Landi.
• 2003 - O finlandês Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) vence o Grande Prémio do Brasil F1.