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Today in History: April 6

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

1199 English King Richard I is killed by an arrow at the Siege of the Castle of Chalus in France.

1789 The First U.S. Congress begins regular sessions at Federal Hall in New York City.

1830 Joseph Smith and five others organize the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Seneca, New York.

1862 Confederate forces attack General Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh, Tennessee.

1896 The Modern Olympics begin in Athens with eight nations participating.

1909 Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first men to reach the North Pole.

1917 The United States declares war on Germany and enters World War I on Allied side.

1938 The United States recognizes Nazi Germany's conquest of Austria.

1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes the use of ground troops in combat operations.

1994 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified.

2013 22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq

2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces state of emergency in seven prefectures and a nearly $1 trillion stimulus package as COVID-19 cases climb

2020 US COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 American infected, New York death toll reaches 4,758

2022 Hermits Peak fire, New Mexico's largest wildfire starts in Mora County, as a supposedly controlled burn off by US Forest Service, goes onto displace 100 people, burn 341,000 acres, 62 million trees

2022 Scientists claim to have found dinosaur remains killed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago beginning their extinction, at Tanis fossil site, North Dakota

2023 Guinness world record for largest afro at 5ft 5in (165cm) set for the third time by Aevin Dugas of Reserve, Louisiana

Born on April 6

1483 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Italian painter (Sistine Madonna).

1786 Sacagawea (also Sacajawea), American explorer.

1937 Merle Haggard, American country musician.

JOTD
Bubba died in a fire and his body was burned pretty badly. The morgue needed someone to identify the body, so they sent for his two best friends, Darryl and Gary.

The three men had always done everything together!!!!!
Darryl arrived first and when the mortician pulled back the sheet Darryl said, “Yup, his face is burned up pretty bad. You better roll him over.”
The mortician rolled him over, and Darryl said, “Nope, ain’t Bubba.”
The mortician thought this was rather strange. Then he brought Gary in to identify the body.
Gary looked at the body and said, “Yup he’s pretty well burnt up. Roll him over.” The mortician rolled him over and Gary said, “No, it ain’t Bubba.”
The mortician asked, “How can you tell?”
Gary said, “Well, Bubba had two assholes.”
“What? He had two assholes?” asked the mortician.
Yup, I’ve never seen ‘em, but everyone knew he had two assholes. Every time we went to town, folks would say, “Here comes Bubba with them two assholes!”