6 Aprile

The 6t o Aprile is the 96t day o the year (97t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 269 days ti come.

Events

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio an Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Yoonger) in the battle o Thapsus.
• 1199 – Keeng Richard I o Ingland dies frae an infection followin the removal o an arrow frae his shoulder.
• 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence bi signin the Declaration o Arbroath.
• 1896 – In Athens, the openin o the first modren Olympic Gemmes is celebratit, 1,500 years efter the oreeginal gemmes are banned bi Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Births

• 1926 – Ian Paisley, Irish meenister an poleetician, 2nt First Meenister o Northren Ireland
• 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German sangster-sangwriter (Accept an U.D.O.)
• 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian poleetician, 54t Preses o Ecuador

Daiths

• 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politeecian, 1st Preses o Tunisie (b. 1903)

Halidays

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