Daily Calendar for Monday, April 6, 2026
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Monday, April 6, 2026
Died
- King Richard I (English monarch, called Richard the Lionheart) –
- Raphael (artist) –
- Tammy Wynette (American country music singer ) –
- Victor Argo (actor) –
- Niki Sullivan (guitarist for Buddy Holly and the Crickets) –
- Prince Rainier III of Monaco –
- Corin Redgrave (actor) –
- Thomas Kinkade (painter; often referred to as Painter of Light”“) –
- Mickey Rooney (actor) –
- James Best (actor; best known as Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard) –
Born
- Raphael (artist) –
- Gerry Mulligan (jazz musician) –
- Billy Dee Williams (actor) –
- John Ratzenberger (actor) –
- Marilu Henner (actress) –
- Bret Boone (baseball player) –
- Paul Rudd (actor) –
- Lou Merloni (baseball player) –
- Zach Braff (actor) –
- Peyton List (actress) –
- Twin mongoose lemurs (born at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida) –
Events
- Brigham Young, the Mormon Church leader, married his 27th and last wife –
- Snow-melting apparatus patented –
- Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated –
- The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece –
- Admiral Robert Peary and his African-American assistant Matthew Henson reached what was believed to be the North Pole –
- The U.S. declared war on Germany (WW I) –
- Bakery manager, Jimmy Dewar, invented a cream filled sponge cake, now known as the Twinkie –
- James Dewar invented Twinkies at the Continental Baking Company in Schiller Park, Illinois. –
- The first Tony Awards were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday –
- Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract just five days after his first screen test –
- Intelsat-1 (nicknamed Early Bird), the world’s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral) in Florida –
- Microsoft released Windows 3.1 –
- 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 –
- A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck central Italy –
Weather
- A blizzard in New York and throughout New England brought high winds and up to 30 inches of snow –