On this day

April 6th events

1896-The first modern Oympics are held in athens.

1917-The United States declares war on Germany and enters ww1.

Birthdays

Ian Paisley-84..N I Clergman/MP
Stan Cullimore-48..House Martins Bassist
Myleene Klass-32..

1199 - King Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) died after being wounded by a crossbow bolt during a siege in France.

1909 - 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.

1963 - Britain and the USA signed the Polaris missile agreement. Polaris was a submarine launched, nuclear tipped weapon designed as a nuclear deterrent.

More Birthdays

Rory Bremner-49
Paul Rudd-41

And another event

1895-Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel,London,after losing a libel case against John Sholto Douglas,9th Marquess of Queensberry.

1739 - Highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged in York for murdering an inn-keeper. Before becoming a highwayman, he had been a butcher's apprentice.

1948 - The World Health Organization was founded.

2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet.

1838 - The day before his 32nd birthday, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s 236 ft steamship Great Western sailed from Bristol on her maiden voyage to New York. The journey took 15 days, half the time of the fastest sailing ship. She became the first steamship to make regular Atlantic crossings.

1973 - Artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

1994 - Rock singer-musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was found dead in Seattle at age 27 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

1747 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain, in a form of execution which had been reserved for the nobility.

1770 - The explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, the first European to do so.

1806 - English engineer and inventor Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born. He was perhaps the greatest of the 19th-century engineers and designed railways, bridges, tunnels, viaducts and ships.

1963 Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen

1968 Martin Luther King Jr., was buried.

2005 Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles.

April 9th Birthdays

Kirsten Stewart-20..Twilight Actress.
Rachel Stevens-32..Singer.
Hugh Hefner-84..shagaholic.
Dennis Quaid-56..US Actor.

1512 - The birth of James V of Scotland, who allied his country with France against the English. He became king at the age of 17 months.

1858 - The bell 'Big Ben' was cast. It is the largest of the five bells in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament).

1912 - The British built luxury liner Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Berth 44, White Star Line dock, Southampton to New York.