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| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 885 | Apr 6 | Methodius, Greek apostle to the Slavs, archbishop of Sirmium, died. |
| 1199 | Apr 6 | Richard I “the Lion-hearted” (41), King of England (1189-99), died. Richard was killed by an arrow at the siege of the castle of Chaluz in France. |
| 1453 | Apr 6 | Ottoman forces under Mehmet II opened fire on Constantinople. |
| 1593 | Apr 6 | Henry Barrow, English puritan, was hanged. |
| 1663 | Apr 6 | King Charles II signed the Carolina Charter. |
| 1722 | Apr 6 | In Russia Peter the Great ended tax on men with beards. |
| 1789 | Apr 6 | The first US Congress began regular sessions at Federal Hall on Wall Street, NYC. |
| 1841 | Apr 6 | Cornerstone was laid for 2nd Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Missouri. |
| 1848 | Apr 6 | Jews of Prussia were granted equality. |
| 1865 | Apr 6 | At the Battle of Sayler’s Creek, a third of Lee’s army was cut off by Union troops pursuing him to Appomattox. Skirmish at High Bridge, VA, (Appomattox). |
| 1889 | Apr 6 | George Eastman placed the Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time. |
| 1893 | Apr 6 | Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City was dedicated. |
| 1906 | Apr 6 | 1st animated cartoon was copyrighted. |
| 1930 | Apr 6 | Hostess Twinkies were invented by bakery executive James Dewar. |
| 1934 | Apr 6 | 418 Lutheran ministers were arrested in Germany. |
| 1939 | Apr 6 | Great Britain and Poland signed a military pact. |
| 1943 | Apr 6 | British and American armies linked up in Africa. |
| 1947 | Apr 6 | The first Tony awards were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria on Easter Sunday. They were named in honor of Antoinette Perry (1888-1946), chairman of the board and secretary of the American Theatre Wing throughout World War II. |
| 1956 | Apr 6 | Polish communist Gomulka was freed from prison. |
| 1957 | Apr 6 | NYC ended trolley car service. |
| 1968 | Apr 6 | In Richmond, Indiana, gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store exploded and at least 16 people were killed. |
| 1973 | Apr 6 | Yankee Ron Blomberg (b.1948) became the 1st designated hitter. He walked. |
| 1979 | Apr 6 | The U.S. cut off aid to Pakistan, because of that country’s covert construction of a uranium enrichment facility. |
| 1980 | Apr 6 | 3-M introduced Post-It Notes. In 2010 inventors, 3M scientists Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver, were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. |
| 1988 | Apr 6 | Black Arctic explorer Matthew Henson (1866-1955) was re-buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington, Va. |
| 1992 | Apr 6 | The US Supreme Court limited some undercover sting operations as it ruled that a Nebraska farmer had been entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography. |
| 1996 | Apr 6 | US INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) agents pursued a stolen camper with more than 20 suspected illegal immigrants when it plunged off a mountain road in Temecula, Ca. and 8 people were killed. |
| 1998 | Apr 6 | The British TV program for toddlers, “Teletubbies,” opened in the US. |
| 1999 | Apr 6 | Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji began a 9-day, 6-city US visit in Los Angeles. He planned to gain support for China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
| 2000 | Apr 6 | The Muslim new year 1421 began with the new moon. |
| 2001 | Apr 6 | US unemployment was reported to be 4.3%, the highest since July, 1999. |
| 2002 | Apr 6 | Pres. Bush repeated his call for Israel to “withdraw without delay” from West Bank towns it had occupied since launching an offensive after a string of suicide attacks. Bush also demanded the Palestinians call “an immediate and effective cease-fire.” |
| 2003 | Apr 6 | In eastern China a fire roared through a food processing plant, killing 21 workers. |
| 2004 | Apr 6 | The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team beat Tennessee 70-61 to win a third consecutive NCAA title, a day after UConn also won the men’s championship. |
| 2005 | Apr 6 | A government official said China plans to build 40 nuclear power plants over the next 15 years, making them the main power source for its booming east coast. |
| 2006 | Apr 6 | A mortar blast near the main US military base in Afghanistan left a civilian dead. |
| 2007 | Apr 6 | China published new rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business critics say has little regard for medical ethics. |
| 2008 | Apr 6 | Thousands of anti-China protesters draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay through London, billed as a journey of harmony and peace. |
| 2009 | Apr 6 | The US Federal Reserve said it will supply new lines of credit worth up to $287 billion to the central banks of Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and EU. |
| 2010 | Apr 6 | Wilma Mankiller (64), the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, died. |
| 2011 | Apr 6 | The Australian military was hit by another scandal after a young army recruit allegedly filmed himself having sex with a female cadet and broadcast it via Skype to his friends. |
| 2012 | Apr 6 | A US Navy F/A-18 Hornet jet crashed into the courtyard of a Virginia Beach apartment complex after taking off from US Naval Air Station Oceana. The two pilots ejected safely before impact. There were no deaths in the crash. |
| 2013 | Apr 6 | Florida state officials said an annual toxic red algae bloom has killed 241 of the state’s roughly 5,000 endangered manatees. |
| 2014 | Apr 6 | Mickey Rooney (b.1920), American stage and screen star, died in southern California. |
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