Today is Wednesday, April 6, the 98th day of 2016. There are 268 days left in the year.
1341 — Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 — Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 — Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 — Battle at Novara King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1716 — Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg- Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great’s niece
1730 — First Jewish congregation in U.S. consecrates synagogue “Shearith Israel”
1759 — British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1766 — First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain