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April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining.

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• 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
• 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia
• 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 1327 - The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of St. Claire in Avignon.
• 1652Events April 6 Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. May 18 Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal. May 29 First Anglo - DutchDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium sailor Jan van RiebeeckJohan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck ( 21 April, 1619 18 January, 1677), was a Dutch colonial administrator. He was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands as the son of a surgeon. He grew up in Schiedam, where he married Maria de la Quellerie on 28 March 1 establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good HopeThe Cape of Good Hope is a headland in South Africa, near Cape Town, traditionally — and incorrectly — regarded as marking the turning point between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Technically, the division between the two oceans lies farther eas, which will eventually develop into Cape TownCape Town ( Afrikaans: Kaapstad , is one of South Africa's three capital cities serving as the legislative capital ( Pretoria being the executive capital and Bloemfontein the judicial capital). It is also the capital of the Western Cape province. It is mo.
• 1782Events January 7 The first American commercial bank opens ( Bank of North America). January 15 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage February 5 Span - Rama I succeeds King TaksinTaksin the Great ( April 17, 1734 April 7, 1782) was king of Thailand from 1767- 1782. His Chinese name was Zheng Chao pinyin zheng4 chao1) He was born in Ayutthaya and given the name Sin''. His father Hai-Hong was of Chinese ethnicity, and his mother Nok of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
• 1804 - The first scientifically recorded meteor lands in Possil, in north Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company .
• 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette Township, New York .
• 1832 - Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
• 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
• 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 at Shiloh.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
• 1869 - Celluloid is patented.
• 1886 - Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
• 1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
• 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress (Wikisource)).
• 1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
• 1930 - Will Rogers starts broadcasting The Will Rogers Program on radio.
• 1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
• 1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia killing 203.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins - Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins.
• 1974 - Representing Sweden, ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo.
• 1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
• 1993 - Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
• 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
• 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.