On this day in History - Apr. 6

• 0648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
• 0006 BC According to some Biblical scholars, this would have been the actual date of the birth of Jesus Christ.
• 0402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia .
• 1199 - King Richard I of England from the effects of an arrow wound received during the siege of Chalus in France. Richard had been one of the leaders of the Third Crusade (b. 1157).
• 1203 - Crusaders launch an attack on the Christian city of Constantinople.
• 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). German 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” dies (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 dies (b. 20 Mar 1608). French artist.
• 1671 - Jean Baptiste Roisseau was born in Paris (d. 17 Mar 1741). French philosopher, playwright and poet (Sacred Odes & Songs).
• 1672 - France declares war on Netherlands.
• 1684 - Domenico Maria Canuti dies (b. 05 Apr 1625). Bolognese painter.
• 1732 - José Celestino Mutis was born. Spanish mathematicien and botanic.
• 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, father of John Stuart Mill. (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.
• 1868 - Mormon leader Brigham Young married his 27th and final wife.
• 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.
• 1882 - Guilherme Avelino de Azevedo dies. Portuguese writer.
• 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.
• 1886 - Amílcar Ramada Curto was born. Portuguese dramatist and writer.
• 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. American explorer Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit guides are the first recorded people to reach 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 - Racing Club de Montevideo, Uruguay, is founded.
• 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). Italian tenor and actor.
• 1927 - Gerry Mulligan was born (d. 1996). Musician.
• 1928 - James D. Watson was born. American geneticist cowinner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Watson shared the prize with British biophysicists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for their discoveries about the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule that contains the hereditary information for cells.
• 1929 - André Previn was born. German-born American composer, pianist and 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 and 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 - Rosinha Garotinho ( Rosangela Barros Assed Matheus de Oliveira) was born in Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian radialist and politician
• 1963 - Otto Struve dies (b 12 Aug 1897).
• 1964 - Universidad Católica de La Plata (Argentine) is created.
• 1964 - Daniel D. Ascenção Filipe dies. Portuguese poet.
• 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 - Chiang Kai-Shek dies. Chinese leader.
• 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). , Russian-born 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 dies (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 - Oscar Landi dies. Argentine philosopher.
• 2003 - O finlandês Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) vence o Grande Prémio do Brasil F1.
• 2004 - Larisa Bogoraz dies (b. 1929). Soviet dissident
• 2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco III dies (b. 1923). Prince of Monaco.