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06 April, 2005

Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

06 April, 2004

Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.

06 April, 1998

Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.

06 April, 1994

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

06 April, 1992

A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal

06 April, 1984

Members of Cameroons Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

06 April, 1973

Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

06 April, 1972

Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

06 April, 1970

Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.

06 April, 1968

In Richmond, Indianas downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.

06 April, 1965

Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit.

06 April, 1957

Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.

06 April, 1947

The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.

06 April, 1941

World War II: Operation Castigo begins; Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.

06 April, 1936

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

06 April, 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 Salt Satyagraha.

06 April, 1926

Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).

06 April, 1924

The first successful flight (with stops) completely around the world begins

06 April, 1923

The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.

06 April, 1919

Gandhi orders a General Strike.

06 April, 1917

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

06 April, 1911

Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).

06 April, 1909

Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.

06 April, 1903

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

06 April, 1896

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

06 April, 1895

Oscar Wilde is arrested (in Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

06 April, 1893

Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

06 April, 1869

Celluloid is patented.

06 April, 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.

06 April, 1865

American Civil War: Battle of Saylers Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

06 April, 1862

American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins - In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

06 April, 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 April, 1832

Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.

06 April, 1830

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

06 April, 1814

Napoleon abdicates. He is then exiled to Elba.

06 April, 1808

John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.

06 April, 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.

06 April, 1782

Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup détat.

06 April, 1667

An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.

06 April, 1652

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

06 April, 1385

John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

06 April, 1327

The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

06 April, 1320

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

06 April, 402

Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.

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