Iseng-Iseng Nyari peristiwa apa aja yang terjadi pada tanggal 6 April di Wikipedia nih.. Eh.. Ternyata banyak juga ya peristiwa yang terjadi pada tanggal gw lahir
* 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 sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
* 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually becomes Cape Town.
* 1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then independent city-state.
* 1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
* 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
* 1814 - Napoleon abdicates. He is then exiled to Elba.
* 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette, 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
* 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 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
* 1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and The West.
* 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
* 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).
* 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wilson's address to Congress).
* 1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
* 1926 - Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
* 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.
* 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.
* 1938 - Teflon is discovered.
* 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins; Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
* 1957 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
* 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit.
* 1968 - In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
* 1970 - Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed.
* 1972 - Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
* 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
* 1984 - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard attack government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
* 1992 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal
* 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
* 1996 - Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win the European Championships (now Euroleague) in Paris, beating FC Barcelona by 67-66.
* 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
* 2004 - Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
