April 06

Friday 06, 2001:

Miller Park opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Monday 06, 1998:

1998 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 49.82 to close at 9,033.23 -- its first-ever close above 9,000.

Wednesday 06, 1994:

The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.

Tuesday 06, 1993:

Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.

Monday 06, 1987:

Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.

Friday 06, 1984:

Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard from country's northern region attack various government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

Saturday 06, 1974:

In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo".

Friday 06, 1973:

Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

Thursday 06, 1972:

The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

Monday 06, 1970:

Four California Highway Patrol officers died in one of the worst cop killings in the CHP's history, this is known as the Newhall Incident

Saturday 06, 1968:

In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la".

Sunday 06, 1941:

Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.

Monday 06, 1936:

Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia killing 203.

Monday 06, 1931:

Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.

Sunday 06, 1930:

Will Rogers starts broadcasting The Will Rogers Program on radio.

Tuesday 06, 1926:

Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, WA to Elko, NV. Varney is the root company of United Airlines.

Friday 06, 1917:

World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress).

Tuesday 06, 1909:

Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.

Monday 06, 1903:

The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.

Thursday 06, 1893:

Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

Monday 06, 1896:

In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Saturday 06, 1895:

Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

Tuesday 06, 1886:

Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.

Tuesday 06, 1869:

Celluloid is patented.

Thursday 06, 1865:

Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

Sunday 06, 1862:

In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.

Tuesday 06, 1841:

John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.

Friday 06, 1832:

The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.

Tuesday 06, 1830:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette, New York.

Wednesday 06, 1808:

John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.

Saturday 06, 1782:

Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.

Saturday 06, 1652:

Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.

Sunday 06, 1327:

The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of St. Claire in Avignon.

Saturday 06, 1320:

The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

Saturday 06, 402:

Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia

Wednesday 06, -648:

Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.

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