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Events

• 1782 (244 years ago) King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
• 1911 (115 years ago) During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
• 1957 (69 years ago) The flag carrier airline of Greece for decades, Olympic Airways, is founded by Aristotle Onassis following the acquisition of "TAE - Greek National Airlines".
• 1974 (52 years ago) In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the 1974 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo", the first of a joint-record seven Swedish wins.
• 1998 (28 years ago) Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• 2017 (9 years ago) U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.

Births

• 1135 (891 years ago) Maimonides, Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, physician and astronomer (March 30 also proposed, died 1204)
• 1812 (214 years ago) Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and author (died 1870)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 1988)
• 1928 (98 years ago) James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1963 (63 years ago) Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador
• 1964 (62 years ago) Tim Walz, American politician, Governor of Minnesota & vice presidential candidate
• 1969 (57 years ago) Paul Rudd, American actor

Deaths

• 1199 (827 years ago) Richard I, king of England (born 1157)
• 1520 (506 years ago) Raphael, Italian painter and architect (born 1483)
• 1528 (498 years ago) Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (born 1471)
• 1829 (197 years ago) Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (born 1802)
• 1971 (55 years ago) Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1882)
• 1992 (34 years ago) Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (born 1920)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (born 1903)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian and Soviet politician (born 1946)

All 446 events, births and deaths of April 6