Daily Calendar for April 6th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1190s

• Died 1199: King Richard I (English monarch, called "Richard the Lionheart")

1480s

• Born 1483: Raphael (artist)

1520s

• Died 1520: Raphael (artist)

1860s

• 1868: Brigham Young, the Mormon Church leader, married his 27th and last wife

• 1869: Snow-melting apparatus patented

1890s

• 1896: The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece

1900s

• 1909: Admiral Robert Peary and his African-American assistant Matthew Henson reached what was believed to be the North Pole

1910s

• 1917: The U.S. declared war on Germany (WW I)

1920s

• Born 1927: Gerry Mulligan (jazz musician)

1930s

• 1930: Bakery manager, Jimmy Dewar, invented a cream filled sponge cake, now known as the Twinkie

• Born 1937: Billie Dee Williams (actor)

1940s

• 1947: The first Tony Awards were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday

• Born 1947: John Ratzenberger (actor)

1950s

• Born 1952: Marilu Henner (actress)

• 1956: Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract just five days after his first screen test

1960s

• 1965: Intelsat-1 (nicknamed Early Bird), the world's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral) in Florida

• Born 1969: Bret Boone (baseball player)

• Born 1969: Paul Rudd (actor)

1970s

• Born 1971: Lou Merloni (baseball player)

• Born 1975: Zach Braff (actor)

1990s

• Died 1998: Tammy Wynette (country musician)

• Born 1998: Peyton List (actress)

2000s

• 2004: UConn's women's basketball team completed a championship sweep for the school by beating Tennessee 70-61 for the NCAA women's title. The victory followed UConn's win over Georgia Tech in the men's championship game the previous night, making Connecticut the first Division I school to sweep both titles

• Died 2004: Niki Sullivan (guitarist for Buddy Holly and the Crickets)

• Died 2004: Victor Argo (actor)

• Died 2005: Prince Rainier III of Monaco

• 2009: A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck central Italy

2010s

• Died 2010: Corin Redgrave (actor)

• Died 2012: Thomas Kinkade (painter; often referred to as "Painter of Light")

• Born 2012: Twin mongoose lemurs (born at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida)

• Died 2014: Mickey Rooney (actor)

• Died 2015: James Best (actor; best known as Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard)