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Events on the 6th of April in history

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06 Apr 2046 Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
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06 Apr 0402 Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
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06 Apr 0402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
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06 Apr 0610 Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
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06 Apr 0774 Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
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06 Apr 1106 Fire in Venice
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06 Apr 1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
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06 Apr 1250 Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
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06 Apr 1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
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06 Apr 1327 Italian Poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
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06 Apr 1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
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06 Apr 1362 Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
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06 Apr 1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
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06 Apr 1453 Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
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06 Apr 1580 One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
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06 Apr 1634 Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao"
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06 Apr 1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established
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06 Apr 1652 John of Riebeeck lands / establishes VOC-post in Cape Town
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06 Apr 1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
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06 Apr 1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
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06 Apr 1664 France and Saksen sign alliance
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06 Apr 1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
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06 Apr 1672 France declares war on Netherlands
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06 Apr 1712 The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
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06 Apr 1722 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
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06 Apr 1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English Minister of Foreign Affairs
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06 Apr 1727 Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
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06 Apr 1757 English King George II fires Minister William Pitt Sr
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06 Apr 1776 American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
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06 Apr 1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
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06 Apr 1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City
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06 Apr 1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
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06 Apr 1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
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06 Apr 1812 British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
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06 Apr 1814 Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
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06 Apr 1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York
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06 Apr 1830 Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
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06 Apr 1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
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06 Apr 1841 U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
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06 Apr 1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
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06 Apr 1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
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06 Apr 1861 First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
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06 Apr 1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
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06 Apr 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
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06 Apr 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
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06 Apr 1866 G.A.R. forms
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06 Apr 1866 The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
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06 Apr 1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife
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06 Apr 1869 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
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06 Apr 1869 Celluloid is patented.
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06 Apr 1883 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
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06 Apr 1886 City of Vancouver BC incorporated
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06 Apr 1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
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06 Apr 1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
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06 Apr 1889 George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
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06 Apr 1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
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06 Apr 1893 Andy Bowen and Jack Burke box 7 hours 19 minutes to no decision (111 rounds)
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06 Apr 1893 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
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06 Apr 1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
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06 Apr 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
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06 Apr 1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3 / 25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
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06 Apr 1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
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06 Apr 1900 James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
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06 Apr 1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
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06 Apr 1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
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06 Apr 1909 1st credit union forms in US
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06 Apr 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
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06 Apr 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
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06 Apr 1911 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
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06 Apr 1912 Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
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06 Apr 1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
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06 Apr 1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
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06 Apr 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
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06 Apr 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
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06 Apr 1920 French troop attacks Main / Darmstadt / Hanau
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06 Apr 1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
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06 Apr 1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
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06 Apr 1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
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06 Apr 1924 First round-the-world flight commences.
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06 Apr 1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
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06 Apr 1926 Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
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06 Apr 1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
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06 Apr 1929 Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
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06 Apr 1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
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06 Apr 1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
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06 Apr 1930 Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
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06 Apr 1931 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
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06 Apr 1931 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
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06 Apr 1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
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06 Apr 1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses and sinks 371 more
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06 Apr 1936 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
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06 Apr 1936 ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
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06 Apr 1936 Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
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06 Apr 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
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06 Apr 1938 Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
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06 Apr 1939 Great Britain and Poland sign military pact
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06 Apr 1939 US and the UK agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Is (Pacific)
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06 Apr 1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
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06 Apr 1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
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06 Apr 1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
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06 Apr 1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces
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06 Apr 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
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06 Apr 1943 British and US army link up in Africa during WWII
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06 Apr 1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
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06 Apr 1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
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06 Apr 1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
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06 Apr 1945 Coevorden freed from Nazis
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06 Apr 1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
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06 Apr 1945 World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
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06 Apr 1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
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06 Apr 1947 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281
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06 Apr 1947 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win
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06 Apr 1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
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06 Apr 1950 John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Acheson
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06 Apr 1952 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
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06 Apr 1954 Montreal Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 seconds in playoff game against Detroit
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06 Apr 1954 TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons
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06 Apr 1955 "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
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06 Apr 1955 Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
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06 Apr 1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
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06 Apr 1957 New York City ends trolley car service
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06 Apr 1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
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06 Apr 1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
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06 Apr 1959 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi, " Susan Hayward and David Niven win
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06 Apr 1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
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06 Apr 1964 Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations
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06 Apr 1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
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06 Apr 1965 The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
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06 Apr 1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
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06 Apr 1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India
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06 Apr 1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government
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06 Apr 1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
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06 Apr 1968 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
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06 Apr 1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
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06 Apr 1968 HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
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06 Apr 1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
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06 Apr 1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
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06 Apr 1970 Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
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06 Apr 1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
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06 Apr 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
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06 Apr 1973 Harbor strike in Gent / Antwerp, Belgium
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06 Apr 1973 Indies troops invade Sikkim
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06 Apr 1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn
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06 Apr 1973 Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #
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06 Apr 1973 US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn
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06 Apr 1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
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06 Apr 1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
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06 Apr 1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
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06 Apr 1974 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
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06 Apr 1974 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11 / 16
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06 Apr 1974 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
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06 Apr 1974 The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
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06 Apr 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
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06 Apr 1975 "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
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06 Apr 1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colorado
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06 Apr 1975 Fastest hat trick by a Washington Cap 3 minutes 26 seconds (Stan Gilbertson)
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06 Apr 1976 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
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06 Apr 1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
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06 Apr 1977 Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
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06 Apr 1978 Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy
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06 Apr 1979 Rod Stewart and Alana Collins wed
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06 Apr 1979 Student protests break out in Nepal.
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06 Apr 1980 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
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06 Apr 1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
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06 Apr 1980 Post It Notes, introduced
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06 Apr 1981 Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
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06 Apr 1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
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06 Apr 1982 Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minn - 52,279
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06 Apr 1982 Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
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06 Apr 1983 Caps 2-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isles hold 1-0 lead
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06 Apr 1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C) - Challenger 5 is launched
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06 Apr 1984 1st time 11 people in space
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06 Apr 1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
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06 Apr 1985 Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
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06 Apr 1985 Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
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06 Apr 1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
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06 Apr 1986 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
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06 Apr 1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr
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06 Apr 1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
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06 Apr 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
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06 Apr 1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
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06 Apr 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
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06 Apr 1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
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06 Apr 1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
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06 Apr 1991 NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
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06 Apr 1991 Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
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06 Apr 1992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
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06 Apr 1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses
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06 Apr 1992 Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
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06 Apr 1992 Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
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06 Apr 1992 Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
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06 Apr 1992 US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
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06 Apr 1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
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06 Apr 1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
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06 Apr 1993 Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
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06 Apr 1994 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
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06 Apr 1994 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
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06 Apr 1994 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
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06 Apr 1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself
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06 Apr 1994 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
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06 Apr 1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
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06 Apr 1995 "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
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06 Apr 1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
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06 Apr 1997 "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
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06 Apr 1997 9th Seniors Golf Tradition: Gil Morgan wins
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06 Apr 1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
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06 Apr 1997 Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
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06 Apr 1997 Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
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06 Apr 1997 Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic
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06 Apr 1998 Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
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06 Apr 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
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06 Apr 2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
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06 Apr 2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
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06 Apr 2008 The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
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06 Apr 2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
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06 Apr 2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
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06 Apr 2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
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06 Apr 2012 Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
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