SomeFacts | April 6

On this day - April 6

Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius ...

402 — Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of ...

1320 — The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the ...

1453 — Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls ...

1580 — One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of ...

1652 — At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck ...

1712 — The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

1776 — American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail ...

1782 — King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day ...

1793 — During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety ...

1800 — The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular ...

1808 — John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that ...

1812 — British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington ...

1814 — Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date ...

1830 — Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint ...

1841 — U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having ...

1860 — The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, ...

1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, ...

1865 — American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: ...

1866 — The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic ...

1896 — In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is ...

1909 — Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to ...

1911 — During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of ...

1917 — World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.

1918 — Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.

1926 — Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is ...

1929 — Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the ...

1930 — At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and ...

1936 — Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the ...

1941 — World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion ...

1945 — World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on ...

1945 — World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian ...

1947 — The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

1948 — The Finno-Soviet Treaty is signed in Moscow.

1957 — The flag carrier airline of Greece for decades, Olympic ...

1958 — Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes in Tittabawassee Township, ...

1965 — Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications ...

1968 — Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership ...

1968 — In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double ...

1970 — Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are ...

1972 — Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained ...

1973 — The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the ...

1973 — Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

1974 — The first California Jam festival takes place at the Ontario ...

1974 — In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the 1974 edition of the ...

1984 — Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully ...

1985 — Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a ...

1992 — The Bosnian War begins.

1994 — The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan ...

1997 — In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.

1998 — Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles ...

2004 — Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be ...

2005 — Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite ...

2008 — The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian ...

2009 — A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, ...

2010 — Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, ...

2011 — In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los ...

2012 — Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.

2017 — U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air ...

2018 — A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team ...