WillDekkard
04-06-2010, 04:03 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 6th
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* 46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
* 402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
* 1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
* 1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
* 1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
* 1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
* 1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town .
* 1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
* 1782 Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'ιtat.
* 1793 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.
* 1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
* 1812 British forces assault the fortress of Badajoz under the command of the Duke of Wellington. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon led France.
* 1814 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
* 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
* 1832 Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War begins the Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
* 1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintslater renamed Community of Christis organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
* 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.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 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.
* 1869 Celluloid is patented.
* 1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish the Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
* 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
* 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.
* 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
* 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.
* 1911 Dedλ Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malλsori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
* 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
* 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
* 1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
* 1926 Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
* 1929 Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
* 1930 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.
* 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
* 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
* 1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
* 1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
* 1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms.
* 1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
* 1965 The British Government announced the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
* 1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
* 1970 Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
* 1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
* 1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter
* 1982 Estonian Communist Party bureau declared "fight against bourgeois TV" meaning Finnish TV a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
* 1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
* 1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvιnal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
* 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
* 1998 Travelers Group announced 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.
* 2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
* 2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
* 2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
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- April 6th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
* 402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
* 1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
* 1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
* 1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
* 1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
* 1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town .
* 1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
* 1782 Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d'ιtat.
* 1793 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.
* 1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
* 1812 British forces assault the fortress of Badajoz under the command of the Duke of Wellington. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon led France.
* 1814 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
* 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
* 1832 Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War begins the Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
* 1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintslater renamed Community of Christis organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
* 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.
* 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 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.
* 1869 Celluloid is patented.
* 1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish the Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
* 1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
* 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.
* 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
* 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.
* 1911 Dedλ Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malλsori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
* 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
* 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
* 1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
* 1926 Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
* 1929 Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
* 1930 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.
* 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
* 1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
* 1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
* 1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
* 1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms.
* 1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
* 1965 The British Government announced the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
* 1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
* 1970 Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
* 1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
* 1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter
* 1982 Estonian Communist Party bureau declared "fight against bourgeois TV" meaning Finnish TV a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
* 1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
* 1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvιnal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
* 1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
* 1998 Travelers Group announced 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.
* 2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
* 2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
* 2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
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