Today is Sunday, April 6, on the 96th day of 2025. There are 269 days in the year.
Today in history:
On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the First World War when the Chamber joined the Senate to approve a declaration of war against Germany which was then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
Also on this date:
In 1830, Joseph Smith and others met in Fayette, New York, to form the Church of Christ – now known as the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Days.
In 1862, the Battle of the Civil War of Shiloh began in Tennessee while the Confederate forces launched a surprise attack on the troops of the Union, which rejected the Confederates the next day.
In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games officially opened its doors in Athens, Greece.
In 1954, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., Responding to CBS Broadiside in the Edward R. Murrow newspaper against “See It Now”, said in filmed remarks for the program that Murrow had, in the past, “engaged in propaganda for communist causes”.
In 1968, 41 people were killed by a pair of explosions stimulated by a natural gas leak in a sports articles store in downtown Richmond, Indiana.
In 1994, Rwandan President Juvenal Habbyimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were killed when the jet in which they was driving was shot by air surface missiles while trying to land in Kigali, Rwanda.
In 2012, five blacks were killed, three deadly, in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Jake England and Alvin Watts, who admitted having targeted the victims because of their race, pleaded guilty of murder and were sentenced to life prison without parole.
Today’s birthdays:
- Scientist James D. Watson is 97 years old.
- The actor Billy Dee Williams is 88 years old.
- Director Barry Levinson is 83 years old.
- Actor John Ratzenberger is 78 years old.
- The renowned temple of Baseball Bert Blyleven is 74 years old.
- Actor Marilu Henner is 73 years old.
- Actor Michael Rooker is 70 years old.
- The Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz is 61 years old.
- The Temple of Football Sterling Sharpe is 60 years old.
- Actor Paul Rudd is 56 years old.
- Actor Zach Braff is 50 years old.
- The actor Candace Cameron Bure is 49.
- The musician Robert Glasper is 47 years old.
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