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The following events took place on April 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 68 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1909

  Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
• 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).
• 1917

  World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
• 1919

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
• 1923

  The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
• 1924

  First round-the-world flight commences.
• 1926

  Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 1929

  Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• 1930

  Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire,” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
• 1936

  Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
• 1941

  World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
• 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.
• 1947

  The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
• 1957

  Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• 1962

  Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
• 1965

  Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
• 1965

  The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
• 1968

  In Richmond, Indiana’s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• 1968

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
• 1970

  Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973

  Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1973

  The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
• 1974

  The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Waterloo”, launching their international career.
• 1979

  Student protests break out in Nepal.
• 1982

  Estonian Communist Party bureau declares “fight against bourgeois TV”—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
• 1984

  Members of Cameroon’s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
• 1994

  The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
• 1998

  Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

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