Today
in History ~ April 6
Tartan Day, in North
America
Events
0402 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoths
0610 - Lailat-ul Qadar, night The Koran descended to Earth
1320 - Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish declaration of Independence. [H]
1327 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura de Sade,
launching the Renaissance
1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1712 - Slave revolt in NYC
1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1757 - English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr
1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions in Federal Hall on Wall Street,
NYC
1815 - English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organize Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY [H]
1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1848 - Jews of Prussia granted equality
1849 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophete," premieres in Paris
1862 - Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee, Union defeats Confederacy
1865 - Skirmish at High Bridge VA, Battle of Sayler's Creek, (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1866 - G.A.R. forms (Grand Army of the Republic)
1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife (I am done with wifery)
1869 - 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece. American athlete James
Connolly wins 1st Olympic gold medal in modern history
1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 - 1st credit union forms in US
1909 - American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. (The claim, disputed by skeptics, was
upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation.)
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1916 - German government OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I [H]
1924 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1926 - 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
1930 - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 - 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1934 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1936 - Tornado kills 203 & injures 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1939 - Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1941 - Germany bombs Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 - Italian-held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1943 - British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1944 - Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain, France overrun by Nazis
1945 - Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 - Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1956 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 - NYC ends trolley car service
1959 - 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward & David Niven
win
1965 - The United States launched the Early Bird communications satellite.
1968 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 - Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1973 - Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1975 - Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1977 - Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, lose to Angels 7-0
1980 - Post-It Notes introduced
1981 - Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1984 - 1st time 11 people in space
1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to
be discharged from the hospital as he moved into an apartment in Louisville, Ky.
1987 - Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in
baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1988 - Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1991 - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 months by Italian
League for testing positive for cocaine use
1992 - Microsoft announces Windows 3.1
1992 - Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, Baltimore beating Cleveland 2-0
1992 - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 - US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents
into buying mail-order child pornography
1994 - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun (Roe v Wade) announced his retirement
after 24 years.
1994 - The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a mysterious
plane crash near Rwanda's capital; widespread violence erupted in Rwanda over
claims the plane had been shot down.
1998 - Country singer Tammy Wynette died at her Nashville, Tenn., home at
age 55.
1991 - Iraq reluctantly agreed to accept United Nations conditions
for ending the Persian Gulf War.
1996 - A sorrowful President Clinton was on hand at Dover Air Force
Base in Delaware to greet the arrival of 33 flag-draped caskets carrying the
remains of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other victims of a plane crash in Croatia.
1996 - A stolen truck carrying illegal immigrants overturned in Temecula, Calif.,
killing eight people.
2000 - The father of Elian Gonzalez, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, arrived in
the United States to press for the return of his 6-year-old son to Cuba.
2000 - A
private company mapping the human genetic blueprint announced it had decoded all of
the DNA pieces that make up the genetic pattern of a single human being.
Birthdays
Today
1631 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1672 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
1773 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
1810 - Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
1844 - Joseph Ludwig, composer
1853 - Portland Oregon (U.S. city: "The City of Roses")
1860 - Rene Lalique, French jewel designer
1866 - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1866 - Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
1874 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Hungary, famous magician/escape artist
1882 - Rose Schneiderman (U.S. women's rights activist: organized 1913 strike of 25,000 women blouse makers & ILGWU; president of WTUL; only woman member of F.D.R.'s Labor Advisory Board)
1884 - Walter Huston (Houghston) (Academy Award-winning actor: Best Supporting Oscar: Treasure of Sierra Madre [1948]: Duel in the Sun, December 7th: The Movie)
1890 - Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 - Lowell Thomas (reporter and radio newscaster: said to be the first to broadcast from a ship, an airplane, a submarine and a coal mine: "So long until tomorrow.")
1906 - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1913 - Wade Ray (country-western entertainer)
1922 - Barry Levinson, director (Rain Man)
1923 - Herb Thomas (auto racer)
1924 - Dorothy Donegan (jazz pianist: At the Embers; appeared in film: Sensations of 1945)
1924 - Mimi (Miriam) Benzell (actress, singer)
1927 - Gerry Mulligan (jazz musician, composer: Disc Jockey Jump, Boplicity, Venus de Milo, Godchild)
1928 - Joi Lansing (Joyce Wassmansdoff) (actress: Easter Parade, Singin' in the Rain, The Merry Widow, Big Foot)
1929 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
1929 - Andre Previn (pianist, composer; Oscar-winning film scores: Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce, My Fair Lady; conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony, London & LA Philharmonic Orchestras)
1929 - Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist (Chicago Symphonty Orchestra)
1937 - Billy Dee Williams (actor: Brian's Song, Lady Sings the Blues, The Return of the Jedi, Batman, The Imposter, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien Intruder, Mahogany)
1937 - Merle Haggard (CMA Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year: [1970]; songwriter: Okie from Muskogee, If We Make It Through December, Hungry Eyes, Workin' Man Blues, Mama Tried)
1938 - Roy Thinnes (actor: From Here to Eternity, The Invaders, Outer Limits, The Hindenburg, Code Name: Diamond Head)
1943 - Marty Pattin (baseball)
1944 - John Huarte (football: Notre Dame, Heisman Trophy [1964])
1944 - Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam) (singer: group: The Mamas and the Papas: California Dreamin', Monday, Monday, I Saw Her Again, Words of Love, Dedicated To The One I Love, Creeque Alley; actress: The Last Movie, Dillinger, Knot's Landing)
1947 - John Ratzenberger (actor: Cheers; The Empire Strikes Back, Timestalkers, Camp Cucamonga: How I Spent My Summer Vacation)
1951 - Bert (Rik Aalbert) Blyleven (baseball: California Angels pitcher; American League Rookie Pitcher of the Year: Minnesota Twins [1970]; Comeback Player of Year: Angels [1989])
1952 - Marilu Henner (actress: Taxi, Evening Shade, Cannonball Run 2)
1953 - Janet Lynn (Nowicki) (ice skater: Olympic bronze medalist [1972]; Ice Follies; won first U.S. Professional Championship [1973])
Famous
deaths
0885 - Methodius, Greek apostle
to the Slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
1199 - Richard I (" the Lion-hearted"), King of England (1189-99),
dies at 41
1252 - Peter of Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor dies at 45
1348 - Petrarch's inspiration for the Renaissance Laura de Sade, dies of plague
1489 - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1520 - Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1528 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
(Praying Hands)
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
1593 - Henry Barrow, English puritian, hanged
1593 - John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
1707 - Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, US/Confederate general, killed in battle of
Shiloh at 59
1865 - Reuben B Boston, US/Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
1935 - Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
1971 - Igor F Stravinsky, Russian-born composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), died in New York City at 88
1974 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89
1975 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1978 - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1983 - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1992 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimer's at
94
1994 - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1994 - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 - Juvanal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated
1996 - Actress Greer Garson died in Dallas at age 92.
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