What are the important events that happened on April 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 6: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 6 is the 96^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 24, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 484,416 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontahexagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 317 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,489 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 6 Historical Events

• 46 BC –
  Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
• 1327 –
  The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
• 1860 –
  The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—later renamed Community of Christ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
• 1909 –
  Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
• 1917 –
  World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
• 1945 –
  World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
• 1968 –
  In Richmond, Indiana’s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• 1998 –
  Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
• 2005 –
  Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• 2009 –
  A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

Who were born on April 6?

• 1812 –
  Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
• 1878 –
  Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
• 1892 –
  Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist (d. 1981)
• 1915 –
  Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director (d. 1990)
• 1939 –
  André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
• 1965 –
  Sterling Sharpe, American football player
• 1972 –
  Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower
• 1981 –
  Robert Earnshaw, Zambian/Welsh footballer
• 1986 –
  Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer
• 1988 –
  Fabrice Muamba, Congolese/English footballer

Who died on April 6?

• 1147 –
  Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
• 1199 –
  Pierre Basile, French soldier
• 1362 –
  James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
• 1490 –
  Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1443)
• 1707 –
  Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
• 1899 –
  Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 1906 –
  Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• 1998 –
  Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
• 2000 –
  Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
• 2006 –
  Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)