April 6: On This Day In World History …. briefly
Interesting historic snippets and facts taken from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London.
1199: Richard I of England dies from an infected wound while besieging Chaluz Castle during the Crusades.
1520: Raphael, Italian Renaissance painter and architect, dies on his 37th birthday.
1580: An earthquake in London damages St Paul’s Cathedral.
1814: French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1830: The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints is founded at Fayette, New York, by Joseph Smith.
1843: English poet William Wordsworth is appointed Poet Laureate.
1939: A Polish defence pact is signed in London by Britain, France and Poland.
1944: Pay As You Earn Income Tax is introduced in Britain.
1965: The US launches the first commercial communications satellite ‘Early Bird’.
1968: Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1972: Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky dies in New York.
1976: Millionaire recluse Howard Hughes dies in a plane while being flown to hospital, leaving a fortune of $2 000 million.
1982: Forty-four year-old American Jim Princeton returns $37.1 million in negotiable bearer certificates which he finds outside 110 Wall Street.
1984: Seventeen-year-old South African runner Zola Budd is granted British citizenship only 13 days after signing her application so that she can run for Britain in the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
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