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April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others. [17] Births ...
2009 – An earthquake measuring 6.3 M w struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless. 2010 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 ...
Gerry Niewood (April 6, 1943 –February 12, 2009), American reedist, would have turned 81 this year. Noah Howard (April 6, 1943 –September 03, 2010), American alto saxophonist, would have turned 81 this year. Merle Haggard (April 6, 1937 –April 06, 2016), American country music singer and songwriter, would have turned 87 this year.
Famous people born on Leap Day. Leap Day babies make up a small percentage of the population, but several notable people have been born on Feb. 29 in even-numbered years. Here are a few notable names:
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway , a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
Here are some of the most notable playmates Hugh Hefner made famous: Jayne Mansfield was Playmate of the Month in June 1963 and was considered a sex symbol in the 50's and 60's. Mansfield was ...
Elle Woods may have graduated from Harvard Law School but Reese Witherspoon did not.. The actress, who starred as the sorority queen turned litigator in 2001's "Legally Blonde," reflected on how ...
1949 - Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate; 1961 - Death of Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) 1963 - Death of Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897) 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in ...