Today in History
6 April
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| 648 BC, the earliest total solar eclipse -- chronicled by Greeks -- was recorded. | ||
| 1106 Fire in Venice | ||
| 1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura | ||
| 1362 Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France | ||
| 1516 A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este | ||
| 1634 Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao" | ||
| 1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in S Africa, established | ||
| 1652 John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown | ||
| 1663 King Charles II signs Carolina Charter | ||
| 1664 France & Saksen sign alliance | ||
| 1672 France declares war on Netherlands | ||
| 1712 Slave revolt in NY | ||
| 1722 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards | ||
| 1724 Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs | ||
| 1727 Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover | ||
| 1757 English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr | ||
| 1789 The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at Federal Hall in New York City. | ||
| 1815 English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed | ||
| 1830 Joseph Smith and five others organized the Mormon church in Seneca, New York. | ||
| 1841 Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri | ||
| 1848 Jews of Prussia granted equality | ||
| 1859 US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform | ||
| 1862 In the American Civil War, the Confederacy suffered a crushing blow at the Battle of Shiloh in southwest Tennessee. | ||
| 1866 G.A.R. forms | ||
| 1868 Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife | ||
| 1869 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented | ||
| 1886 The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated. | ||
| 1886 Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga | ||
| 1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws) | ||
| 1906 1st animated cartoon copyrighted | ||
| 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson | ||
| 1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare | ||
| 1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I | ||
| 1920 French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau | ||
| 1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight | ||
| 1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament | ||
| 1925 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air) | ||
| 1930 1st transcontinental glider tow completed | ||
| 1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar | ||
| 1934 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany | ||
| 1935 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more | ||
| 1936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia | ||
| 1938 Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett | ||
| 1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact | ||
| 1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific) | ||
| 1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) | ||
| 1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa | ||
| 1941 German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) | ||
| 1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces | ||
| 1943 British & US army link up in Africa during WW II | ||
| 1943 British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia | ||
| 1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis | ||
| 1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa | ||
| 1945 US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa | ||
| 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island | ||
| 1955 Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam | ||
| 1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison | ||
| 1958 Arnold Palmer who later became one of the best golfers in history won his first major golf tournament, The Masters. | ||
| 1964 Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations | ||
| 1966 Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India | ||
| 1967 Premier Pompidou forms new French government | ||
| 1968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) | ||
| 1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan | ||
| 1973 Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| 1973 Indies troops invade Sikkim | ||
| 1973 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks | ||
| 1977 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released | ||
| 1980 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season | ||
| 1980 Post It Notes, introduced | ||
| 1981 Yugoslav govt sends troops to Kosovo | ||
| 1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands | ||
| 1985 Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final | ||
| 1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab | ||
| 1988 Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington | ||
| 1992 Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo | ||
| 1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself | ||
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