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What Happened on April 6th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.
2017	U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
2012	Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
2011	In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.
2010	Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2009	A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2008	The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
2005	Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2004	Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
1998	Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1997	In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.
1994	The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1992	The Bosnian War begins.
1985	Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab.
1984	Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1973	Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973	The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1972	Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1970	Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1968	In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968	Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon afterward.
1965	Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1958	Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes into Saginaw Bay near Freeland, Michigan, killing 47.
1957	The flag carrier airline of Greece for decades, Olympic Airways, is founded by Aristotle Onassis following the acquisition of "TAE - Greek National Airlines".
1947	The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1945	World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945	World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1941	World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1936	Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1930	At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
1929	Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1926	Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1918	Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.
1917	World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
1911	During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
1909	Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
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.
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.
1865	American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign.
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.
1860	The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
1841	U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death.
1830	Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1814	Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1812	British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1808	John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1800	The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. (Under the Old Style calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.)
1793	During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1782	King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
1776	American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1712	The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1652	At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1580	One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1453	Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul.
1320	The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
402	Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
46	Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.

Famous People Born on April 6

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Year	Name
1931	Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1988	Jucilei, Brazilian footballer
1857	Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (d. 1922)
1864	William Bate Hardy, English biologist and academic (d. 1934)
1940	Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (d. 2011)
1955	Rob Epstein, American director and producer
1957	Maurizio Damilano, Italian race walker and coach
1903	Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
1939	André Ouellet, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1956	Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (d. 2013)

Famous People Deaths On April 6

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 6. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1621	Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (b. 1539)
1883	Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
1707	Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch-English painter (b. 1633)
1977	Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
1340	Basil, emperor of Trebizond (Turkey)
2017	Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
887	Pei Che, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
1959	Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
1947	Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
1995	Ioannis Alevras, Greek banker and politician, President of Greece (b. 1912)