Today in History - History - April 6th

1919Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike.

1757British King George II fires minister William Pitt Sr

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

1830Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY

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

1663King Charles II signs Carolina Charter

195822nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

1920Physicist Erwin Schrödinger (32) weds Annemarie Bertel

1979Singer Rod Stewart & model Alana Collins wed

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

1868Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife

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

1998Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55

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

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

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