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06 Apr 1320
The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath
06 Apr 1327
Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
06 Apr 1362
Tard-Venus robber bands strike at Brignais France
06 Apr 1385
John Master of the Order of Aviz is made King John I of Portugal
06 Apr 1516
A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I dEste
06 Apr 1634
Heeren XIX (the directors of the Dutch West India Company) ask to secure Eylands Curacao
06 Apr 1667
An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik then an independent city-state
06 Apr 1782
Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand) who is overthrown in a coup dtat
06 Apr 1815
British militia shoots prisoners 100s killed
06 Apr 1841
Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple Nauvoo Illinois
06 Apr 1859
US recognizes Liberal government in Mexicos War of Reform
06 Apr 1860
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.
06 Apr 1862
Battle of Shiloh Union defeats Confederacy near Pittsburg Landing Tennessee
06 Apr 1865
Battle of Saylers Creek fought near Farmville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 14 of Lees army cut off Union victory (US Civil War)
06 Apr 1865
Battle of High Bridge fought near Farmville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) inconclusive result (US Civil War)
06 Apr 1866
Grand Army of the Republic forms in Decatur Illinois by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson
06 Apr 1877
British Open Golf Musselburgh Links Jamie Anderson wins his first of 3 consecutive Championships beats fellow Scot Bob Pringle by 2 shots
06 Apr 1883
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Speckled Band (BG)
06 Apr 1890
French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu West-Sudan
06 Apr 1893
Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
06 Apr 1896
I Summer Olympic Games open in Athens Greece American athlete James Connolly Olympic becomes first modern Olympic champion when he wins the triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump) later 3rd in the long jump 2nd in the high jump
06 Apr 1903
General railroad strike against worgwetten (anti-strike laws)
06 Apr 1903
The Kishinev pogrom in Bessarabia begins forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
06 Apr 1903
In Holland railroad and dock workers go out on strike but the government passes anti-strike bills calls out troops and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April
06 Apr 1905
Germany receives invitation from Sultan of Morocco to an international conference to discuss matters relating to Morocco
06 Apr 1909
North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
06 Apr 1914
American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
06 Apr 1916
German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare
06 Apr 1917
US declares war on Germany enters World War I
06 Apr 1920
To force German evacuation of the Ruhr area the French occupy Frankfurt Darmstadt and Hanau
06 Apr 1923
The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution Malaysia
06 Apr 1924
4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
06 Apr 1924
Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
06 Apr 1924
Vlkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
06 Apr 1926
Stanley Cup Final Montreal Forum Montreal Quebec Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL) 2-0 for a 3-1 series victory
06 Apr 1930
Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
06 Apr 1931
1st Scottsboro (Alabama) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
06 Apr 1931
1st broadcast of Little Orphan Annie on NBC-radio
06 Apr 1935
H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws misses & sinks 371 more
06 Apr 1936
3rd Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf Horton Smith wins his second Masters 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Harry Cooper with defending champion Gene Sarazen 3rd
06 Apr 1936
Tornado kills 203 & injuring 1800 in Gainesville Georgia
06 Apr 1939
US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
06 Apr 1941
8th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Craig Wood wins his first major title 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson Masters first wire-to-wire champion
06 Apr 1941
Beginning of operation Bestrafung - German bombers attack Belgrade (17000 die)
06 Apr 1941
British major general Michael Gambier-Parry captured in North Africa
06 Apr 1941
German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
06 Apr 1941
Italian forces holding Addis Ababa surrender to British & Ethiopian forces
06 Apr 1943
British & US armies link up in Africa during WW II
06 Apr 1943
British offensive at Wadi Akarit South Tunisia
06 Apr 1943
Lou Jansen leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
06 Apr 1944
Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
06 Apr 1945
Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
06 Apr 1945
Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
06 Apr 1947
11th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jimmy Demaret wins his 2nd Masters by 2 strokes over Byron Nelson and amateur Frank Stranahan
06 Apr 1954
Montreal Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
06 Apr 1955
3 for Tonight opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
06 Apr 1957
USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
06 Apr 1957
Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
06 Apr 1958
22nd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Arnold Palmer wins the first of his 4 Masters titles 1 stroke ahead of Doug Ford and Fred Hawkins first of his 7 major titles
06 Apr 1965
Intelsat 1 (Early Bird) 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite launched
06 Apr 1966
Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
06 Apr 1968
94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
06 Apr 1968
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
06 Apr 1968
Gas and gunpowder explosions at sporting goods store downtown Richmond Indiana kills 41 and injures more than 150
06 Apr 1968
13th Eurovision Song Contest Massiel for Spain wins singing La la la in London
06 Apr 1972
The Scarman Tribunal Report an inquiry into the causes of violence during the summer of 1969 in N Ireland is published finding that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had been seriously at fault
06 Apr 1973
Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter he walks
06 Apr 1974
200000 attend rock concert California Jam in Ontario
06 Apr 1974
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 1116
06 Apr 1974
Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium beat Indians 6-1
06 Apr 1974
19th Eurovision Song Contest ABBA for Sweden wins singing Waterloo in Brighton
06 Apr 1975
Night... Made America Famous closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
06 Apr 1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
06 Apr 1975
Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction Colorado
06 Apr 1975
Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
06 Apr 1977
Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
06 Apr 1977
Kingdome opens Seattle Mariners 1st game loses to Angels 7-0
06 Apr 1978
Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn & 193 to win Ranji Trophy
06 Apr 1979
Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1000th game as a skipper a 5-3 Orioles victory over the Chicago White Sox
06 Apr 1982
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
06 Apr 1982
Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52279
06 Apr 1984
11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
06 Apr 1984
Members of Cameroons Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
06 Apr 1985
Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
06 Apr 1985
Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
06 Apr 1986
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Pat Bradley wins the 4th of her 6 major titles 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Val Skinner
06 Apr 1986
CBS fact based Nobodys Child story of Marie Balter
06 Apr 1987
Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
06 Apr 1987
Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management sparking a racial controversy
06 Apr 1988
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington National Cemetery
06 Apr 1988
NJ Devils 1st playoff game lose to NY Islanders 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
06 Apr 1989
Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
06 Apr 1991
Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
06 Apr 1991
NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giants Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
06 Apr 1991
Subhana becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
06 Apr 1991
145th Grand National In Canadian distillery Seagrams final year of race sponsorship New Zealand-bred chestnut gelding Seagram wins ridden by Nigel Hawke
06 Apr 1992
1st game at Camden Field Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
06 Apr 1992
54th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Michigan 71-51
06 Apr 1992
British Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
06 Apr 1992
Microsoft announced Windows 3.1 upgrading Windows 3.0
06 Apr 1992
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens beating Cleveland 2-0
06 Apr 1992
US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
06 Apr 1992
Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
06 Apr 1992
A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
06 Apr 1993
Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
06 Apr 1994
1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
06 Apr 1994
Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
06 Apr 1994
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
06 Apr 1994
Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
06 Apr 1994
Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
06 Apr 1995
Having Our Say opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
06 Apr 1996
Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
06 Apr 1997
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
06 Apr 1997
Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
06 Apr 1998
Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
06 Apr 2002
155th Grand National 8-year-old 201 shot Bindaree ridden by Jim Culloty and trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies wins by 1 lengths from Whats Up Boys
06 Apr 2002
France beats Ireland 44-5 at Stade de France Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship their 13th title
06 Apr 2004
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
06 Apr 2004
23rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Tennessee 70-61
06 Apr 2006
NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
06 Apr 2008
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC top-ranked Lorena Ochoa of Mexico shoots a bogey-free final round 67 to win by 5 strokes ahead of Suzann Pettersen and Annika Srenstam
06 Apr 2009
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near LAquila Italy killing at least 253.
06 Apr 2009
71st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan State 89-72
06 Apr 2010
29th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Stanford 53-47
06 Apr 2012
US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
06 Apr 2013
22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba Iraq
06 Apr 2013
11 people are killed in an attack on a village in Midlu Nigeria
06 Apr 2013
Bayern Munich win their 23rd German Bundesliga title with 6 games to spare
06 Apr 2013
48th Academy of Country Music Awards Luke Bryan Miranda Lambert & Jason Aldean win
06 Apr 2013
166th Grand National Ryan Mania wins aboard 661 Auroras Encore for trainer Sue Smith
06 Apr 1877
British Open Mens Golf Musselburgh Links Jamie Anderson wins his first of 3 consecutive Championships beats fellow Scot Bob Pringle by 2 shots
06 Apr 1945
The Holocaust Nazis begin evacuating prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp
06 Apr 1945
World War II Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
06 Apr 1945
Battle of Okinawa Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island
06 Apr 1952
16th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Sam Snead wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes over Jack Burke Jr
06 Apr 1973
America launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter & Saturn
06 Apr 1988
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington National Cemetery
06 Apr 1992
54th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Michigan 71-51 back-to-back titles for Blue Devils and coach Mike Krzyzewski
06 Apr 1994
Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into beauty queen Marla Maples home
06 Apr 1994
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
06 Apr 1997
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf GC at Desert Mountain Gil Morgan wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes from Isao Aoki
06 Apr 2004
23rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Tennessee 70-61 UConns Diana Taurasi is named Most Outstanding Player for the 2nd straight year
06 Apr 2009
71st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan State 89-72 Tar Heels 5th national title Ty Lawson 21 points
06 Apr 2010
29th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Stanford 53-47 UConn forward Maya Moore scores 23 points
06 Apr 2014
Viktor Orbns Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary
06 Apr 2014
49th Academy of Country Music Awards George Strait Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert win
06 Apr 2014
ICC Womens Cricket T20 World Cup Dhaka captain Meg Lannings 44 from 30 balls leads Australia to 1064 beat England 1058 to win by 6 wickets (with 29 balls remaining) 3rd consecutive T20 WC
06 Apr 2014
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC 19 year old Lexi Thompson shoots a bogey-free final round 68 to win her first major title 3 strokes ahead of Michelle Wie
06 Apr 2014
WrestleMania XXX Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans LA (75167) Daniel Bryan defeats Batista and Randy Orton in Triple Threat title match
06 Apr 2015
77th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Wisconsin 68-63 Blue Devils point guard Tyus Jones 23 points
06 Apr 1865
Battle of Saylers Creek fought near Farmville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 14 of General Robert E. Lees army cut off Union victory (US Civil War)
06 Apr 1896
1st modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens Greece American athlete James Connolly Olympic becomes first modern Olympic champion when he wins the triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump) later 3rd in the long jump 2nd in the high jump
06 Apr 1987
Los Angeles Dodgers GM Al Campanis appears on TV program ABC News Nightline saying Blacks may not be equipped to be in baseball management sparking a racial controversy
06 Apr 1996
American baseball player Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
06 Apr 1648
Construction of the Red Fort completed at Shahjahanabad Mughal Empire (now Dehli India)
06 Apr 1896
First modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens Greece American athlete James Connolly becomes first modern Olympic champion when he wins triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump) later 3rd in long jump 2nd in high jump
06 Apr 1974
200000 attend rock concert California Jam at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario California line-up includes Earth Wind & Fire Black Sabbath Deep Purple and Emerson Lake & Palmer
06 Apr 1974
Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium while Yankee Stadium is renovated beat Cleveland Indians 6-1
06 Apr 1974
19th Eurovision Song Contest ABBA for Sweden wins singing Waterloo in Brighton England
06 Apr 1984
11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C) Challenger 5 launches
06 Apr 1975
Harry Chapins musical revue The Night That Made America Famous closes at Barrymore Theatre NYC after 75 performances
06 Apr 1988
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington Virginia
06 Apr 1992
1st game at Camden Field Baltimore Maryland - Orioles beat Cleveland Indians 2-0
06 Apr 1999
Benny Andersson & Bjrn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia featuring the songs of ABBA opens at the Prince Edward Theatre in Londons West End transfers twice to other venues run interrupted by COVID-19 in March of 2020
06 Apr 2014
ICC Mens Cricket T20 World Cup Mirpur Sri Lanka wins their first title with 6 wicket victory over India with 13 balls remaining Player of the Series Indian batsman Virat Kohli (319 runs)
06 Apr 1768
French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainvilles expedition arrives in Tahiti claiming it for France and naming it New Cythera [1]
06 Apr 1886
City of Vancouver British Columbia incorporated
06 Apr 1938
Teflon invented by American chemist Roy J. Plunkett at DuPont [1]
06 Apr 1973
Federal court rules in favor of the Smothers Brothers in breach of contract lawsuit against CBS-TV awarding them 776300 USD
06 Apr 2014
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC 19-year-old Lexi Thompson shoots a bogey-free final round 68 to win her first major title 3 strokes ahead of Michelle Wie
06 Apr 2016
First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
06 Apr 2016
France passes legislation making it illegal to pay for sex
06 Apr 2019
First ever Marsquake seismic event on planet Mars detected by NASAs InSight lander
06 Apr 2019
Tampa Bay Lightning beats Boston Bruins 6-3 in the season finale for their 62nd regular season win tying the NHL record held by Detroit Red Wings (1995-96) 128 points 4th in NHL history
06 Apr 2020
Cyclone Harold makes landfall in Vanuatu leaving thousands of houses destroyed and 2 dead
06 Apr 2020
Nadia a tiger at the Bronx Zoo (New York City) tests positive for COVID-19 1st known case of human-to-cat transmission
06 Apr 2020
US COVID-19 death toll passes 10000 in six weeks with more than 356000 American infected New York death toll reaches 4758
06 Apr 2021
Recording-breaking price of 3.25 million for a comic book as Action Comics 1 that introduced Superman for the first time sells at auction [1]
06 Apr 2022
Hermits Peak fire New Mexicos largest wildfire starts in Mora County as a supposedly controlled burn off by US Forest Service goes onto displace 100 people burn 341000 acres 62 million trees [1]
06 Apr 2022
Military Tribunal in Ouagadougou convicts former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaor in absentia of the 1987 killing of his predecessor Thomas Sankara [1]
06 Apr 1320
Scottish nobles reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath addressed to Pope John XXII
06 Apr 1327
Italian poet Petrarch first sets eyes on his beloved Laura
06 Apr 1516
Adrian Willaert is installed as a singer for Cardinal Ippolito I dEste
06 Apr 1606
Mughal prince Khusrav son of Emperor Jahangir begins a rebellion against his father put down a few weeks later with the prince blinded as punishment
06 Apr 1815
British prison guards shoot disorderly American POWs killing seven and injuring between 31 and 60 in the Dartmoor Massacre [1]
06 Apr 1896
First modern Summer Olympic Games open in Athens Greece American athlete James Connolly becomes the first modern Olympic champion when he wins the triple jump (then 2 hops and a jump) later places 3rd in long jump and 2nd in high jump
06 Apr 1917
The United States declares war on Germany and enters World War I on the side of the Allies
06 Apr 1923
King Oliver and his Creole band record Dippermouth Blues during the second day of sessions at Gennett Records in Richmond Indiana [1]
06 Apr 1993
First test flight of the Ilyushin IL-96M takes place in Moscow
06 Apr 1993
Florida Marlins lose their first-ever game 4-2 to the LA Dodgers
06 Apr 1994
First scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
06 Apr 2004
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed via impeachment
06 Apr 2006
New Zealand Sign Language is made an official language of New Zealand
06 Apr 2009
6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near LAquila Italy killing at least 253 people
06 Apr 2016
First baby born with DNA from three parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
06 Apr 2022
Scientists claim to have found dinosaur remains killed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago beginning their extinction at Tanis fossil site North Dakota [1]
06 Apr 1903
The Kishinev pogrom in Bessarabia begins forcing tens of thousands of Russian Jews to seek refuge in Palestine and Western countries
06 Apr 1909
First US credit union St. Marys Cooperative Credit Association opens in Manchester New Hampshire
06 Apr 1924
Four airplanes leave Seattle on the first successful around-the-world flight
06 Apr 1925
The Lost World is the first film shown on an airplane (British Airway)
06 Apr 1931
First broadcast of Little Orphan Annie on NBC Radio
06 Apr 1941
Italian forces holding Addis Ababa surrender to British and Ethiopian forces
06 Apr 1973
America launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter and Saturn
06 Apr 1973
New York Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes MLBs 1st designated hitter he walks on five pitches from Boston Red Sox Luis Tiant at Fenway Park
06 Apr 1999
Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia featuring the songs of ABBA opens at the Prince Edward Theatre in Londons West End transfers twice to other venues and its run is interrupted by COVID-19 in March of 2020
06 Apr 2018
US representative Blake Farenthold resigns amidst sexual harassment allegations
06 Apr 2021
Record-breaking price of 3.25 million for a comic book as Action Comics 1 which introduces Superman for the first time sells at auction [1]
06 Apr 2023
Guinness world record for largest afro at 5ft 5in (165cm) set for the third time by Aevin Dugas of Reserve Louisiana [1]