April 6

On This Day In History
	1896: Olympics revived Pierre, baron de Coubertin, a founder of the International Olympic Committee and its president from 1896 to 1925, realized his goal of reviving the Olympics when the first modern Games opened in Athens this day in 1896.
An official poster from the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens
Biography Of The Day
	Raphael Born this day in 1483 was Italian master painter and architect Raphael, whose work is admired for clarity of form and ease of composition and who is best known for his Madonnas and large figure compositions in the Vatican.
The Grand-Duke's Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti
More Events On This Day In History
	1909 American explorer Robert Edwin Peary led the first expedition to the North Pole.
1868	1868 The Japanese emperor Meiji issued the Charter Oath, which served to modernize the country during the Meiji Restoration.
1862	1862 Union troops clashed with Confederates in southwestern Tennessee at the Battle of Shiloh, the second great engagement of the American Civil War.
	1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formed by American prophet Joseph Smith at Fayette, New York.
1348	1348 The woman said to be Laura, the beloved muse of the Italian poet Petrarch, died.
	1199 Mortally wounded in battle, Richard I (the Lion-Heart) died at Châlus in the duchy of Aquitaine.