April 6 Events |
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| April 6th, 2005 (April 06 2005) | Event | Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. | |
| April 6th, 2004 (April 06 2004) | Event | Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment. | |
| April 6th, 1998 (April 06 1998) | Event | Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. | |
| April 6th, 1994 (April 06 1994) | Event | The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. | Juvenal Quotes |
| April 6th, 1992 (April 06 1992) | Event | A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal. | |
| April 6th, 1984 (April 06 1984) | Event | Members of Cameroon s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Event | Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Event | The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter | |
| April 6th, 1972 (April 06 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: Easter OffensiveAmerican forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments. | |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Event | Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed. | |
| April 6th, 1968 (April 06 1968) | Event | In Richmond, Indiana s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. | |
| April 6th, 1965 (April 06 1965) | Event | Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. | |
| April 6th, 1957 (April 06 1957) | Event | Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. | Aristotle Quotes |
| April 6th, 1947 (April 06 1947) | Event | The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements. | |
| April 6th, 1941 (April 06 1941) | Event | World War II: Operation Castigo begins. Germany invades the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece. | |
| April 6th, 1936 (April 06 1936) | Event | Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203. | |
| April 6th, 1930 (April 06 1930) | Event | Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha. | |
| April 6th, 1926 (April 06 1926) | Event | Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). | |
| April 6th, 1923 (April 06 1923) | Event | The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. | |
| April 6th, 1919 (April 06 1919) | Event | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike. | |
| April 6th, 1917 (April 06 1917) | Event | World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson s address to Congress). | |
| April 6th, 1911 (April 06 1911) | Event | Dede Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malesori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg). | |
| April 6th, 1909 (April 06 1909) | Event | Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole. | |
| April 6th, 1903 (April 06 1903) | Event | The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world. | |
| April 6th, 1896 (April 06 1896) | Event | In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after the original games were banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. | |
| April 6th, 1895 (April 06 1895) | Event | Oscar Wilde is arrested (in the Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| April 6th, 1893 (April 06 1893) | Event | Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff. | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| April 6th, 1869 (April 06 1869) | Event | Celluloid is patented. | |
| April 6th, 1866 (April 06 1866) | Event | The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is foundedied in It lasts until 1956. | |
| April 6th, 1865 (April 06 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler s CreekConfederate General Robert E. Lee s Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia. | |
| April 6th, 1862 (April 06 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh beginsin Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| April 6th, 1860 (April 06 1860) | Event | Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 6th, 1832 (April 06 1832) | Event | Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War beginsthe Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States. | |
| April 6th, 1830 (April 06 1830) | Event | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette, New York. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 6th, 1814 (April 06 1814) | Event | Napoleon abdicates and is then exiled to Elba. | |
| April 6th, 1808 (April 06 1808) | Event | John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company. | |
| April 6th, 1793 (April 06 1793) | Event | During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins. | |
| April 6th, 1782 (April 06 1782) | Event | Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d etat. | |
| April 6th, 1667 (April 06 1667) | Event | An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state. | |
| April 6th, 1652 (April 06 1652) | Event | Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually becomes Cape Town. | |
| April 6th, 1385 (April 06 1385) | Event | John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal. | |
| April 6th, 1327 (April 06 1327) | Event | The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon. | Petrarch Quotes |
| April 6th, 1320 (April 06 1320) | Event | The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. | |
| April 6th, 0402 (April 06 0402) | Event | Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. | |
