Today in History - History - April 6th

774Charles the Great (Charlemagne) confirmed the gift to the Pope of the territories belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in 753

1900james j jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

46 BCJulius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.

198615th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley

1722Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards

19809th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young

1663King Charles II signs Carolina Charter

1973Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #

198722nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr

1991Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use

1937Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)

1483Raphael Sanzio, Urbino, Italy, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina and School of Athens) (birthday in the Julian calendar)

1928James Watson, American chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)

1975Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs)

1937Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California, country singer (Death Valley Days)

1969Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)

1868Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife

1920Physicist Erwin Schrödinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel

1953MLB baseball player Ernie Banks (22) weds Mollye Louise

1979Singer Rod Stewart & model Alana Collins wed

189623rd US President Benjamin Harrison (63) weds Mary Scott (37) at St Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City

1997Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan (71) weds NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell (50) at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia

1992Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72

1520Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday

1971Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies of pneumonia at 88

1199Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41