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402 Apr 6, Battle
at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beat the Visigoths.
(MC, 4/6/02)
610 Apr 6, Lailat-ul Qadar: The
night that the Koran descended to Earth. Muhammad is believed by his
followers to have had a vision of Gabriel. The angel told him to recite
in the name of God. Other visions are supposed to have Gabriel lead
Muhammad to heaven to meet God, and to Jerusalem to meet Abraham, Moses
and Jesus. These visions convinced Mohammad that he was a messenger of
God.
(ATC, p.59)(MC, 4/6/02)
885 Apr 6, Methodius, Greek
apostle to the Slavs, archbishop of Sirmium, died.
(MC, 4/6/02)
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.
(HN, 4/6/99)(MC, 4/6/02)
1252 Apr 6, Peter of Verona (45),
[Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor died.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1327 Apr 6,
Petrarch met Laura de Sade in a church at Avignon, and was inspired for
the rest of his life. He wrote his finest poems about her beauty and
loveliness... and about his later recognition that he had loved her
wrongly, placing her person ahead of her spirit. This event has been
taken to mark the beginning of the Renaissance
(V.D.-H.K.p.131)(MC, 4/6/02)
1348 Apr 6,
Laura de Sade, the arch love of Petrarch died of the plague. Boccaccio
retired from plague-stricken Florence, and in a country residence began
to write the Decameron.
(V.D.-H.K.p.131-132)
1453 Apr 6, Ottoman forces under
Mehmet II opened fire on Constantinople.
(ON, 10/00, p.11)
1483 Apr 6, Raphael (Raffaello
Sanzio, d.1520), Dutch painter (Sistine Madonna), was born to an
unremarkable painter in the Duchy of Urbino. He went on to paint works
in the Vatican. After an apprenticeship in Perugia, he went to
Florence, having heard of the work da Vinci and Michelangelo were
doing. His last 12 years were spent on numerous commissions in Rome. He
died on his 37th birthday, his funeral mass being celebrated in the
Vatican. [see Mar 28]
(HN, 4/6/98)(HNQ, 11/17/00)
1489 Apr 6, Hans Waldmann, Swiss
military, mayor (Zurich), was beheaded.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1520 Apr 6, Raphael (b.1483),
[Sanzio], Italian painter (Sistine Madonna), died on his 37th birthday.
His work included "The Veiled Lady" and a set of cartoons that were
woven into 10 tapestries titled "The Acts of the Apostles" (1544-1557).
(WSJ, 4/11/02,
p.D7)(www.abcgallery.com/R/raphael/raphaelbio.html)
1528 Apr 6, Albrecht Durer
(b.1471), German painter, graphic artist, died in Germany.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, DB p.6)(MC, 4/6/02)
1590 Apr 6, Francis Walsingham
(~57), English secretary of state, died.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1593 Apr 6, Henry Barrow, English
puritan, was hanged.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1593 Apr 6, John Greenwood,
English Congressionalist, was hanged.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1631 Apr 6, Vincenzo De Grandis,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1663 Apr 6, King Charles II signed
the Carolina Charter. [see Mar 24]
(MC, 4/6/02)
1671 Apr 6, Jean-Baptiste
Rousseau, French playwright, poet (Sacred Odes & Songs), was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1672 Apr 6, Andre Ardinal
Destouches, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1707 Apr 6, Willem Van de Velde
(73), the Young, Dutch seascape painter, died.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1722 Apr 6, In Russia Peter the
Great ended tax on men with beards.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1757 Apr 6, English king George II
fired minister William Pitt, Sr.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1760 Apr 6, Charlotte Charke
(b.1713), actress and writer, died. In 2005 Kathryn Shevelow authored
“Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress’s Flamboyant Adventures
in Eighteenth-Century London’s Wild and Wicked Theatrical World.”
(SSFC, 4/3/05, p.F3)(http://tinyurl.com/5jnfh)
1773 Apr 6, James Mill (d.1836),
English philosopher, historian (Hist of British India) and economist,
was born in Scotland.
(V.D.-H.K.p.253)(WUD, 1994 p.909)(MC, 4/6/02)
c1786 Apr 6,
Sacagawea (also Sacajawea), American explorer, was born.
(HN, 4/6/01)
1789 Apr 6, The first US Congress
began regular sessions at Federal Hall on Wall Street, NYC.
(HN, 4/6/98)(MC, 4/6/02)
1815 Apr 6, At Dartmoor Prison in
southwest England 7 American prisoners were killed by British soldiers
under the command of Captain Thomas G. Shortland. Some 6,000 prisoners
were awaiting return to the US. A farmer’s jury with no victims or
witnesses issued a verdict on April 8 of “justifiable homicide.”
(AH, 10/02, p.36)
1826 Apr 6, Gustave Moreau, French
painter, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1829 Apr 6, Niels Henrik Abel
(b.1802), Norwegian mathematician, died of tuberculosis. After him
comes the term Abelian group, an algebraic commutative group. In 2004
Peter Pesic authored “Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning
of Mathematical Unsolvability.”
(AHD, 1971, p.2)(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A15)(Econ, 5/15/04,
p.80)
1830 Apr 6, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith and five
others in Fayette, Seneca County, N.Y. Joseph Smith published the “Book
of Mormon” in Palmyra, New York. He claimed that the manuscript was
based on ancient golden plates revealed to him by the angel Moroni and
written in the language of the Egyptians. The book records the journey
of an ancient Israelite prophet, Lehi, and his family to the American
continent some 2,000 years ago. [see 1827, 1831]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)(NH, 10/96, p.19)(AP, 4/6/97)(HN,
4/6/98)
1841 Apr 6, Cornerstone was laid
for 2nd Mormon temple at Nauvoo, Missouri.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1844 Apr 6, Joseph Ludwig,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1848 Apr 6, Jews of Prussia were
granted equality.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1849 Apr 6, Giacomo Meyerbeer's
opera "Le Prophete," premiered in Paris. [see Apr 16]
(MC, 4/6/02)
1858 Apr 6, President Buchanan
issued a proclamation declaring Mormons in the Utah Territory to be in
a state of rebellion against the US government.
(AP, 4/6/08)
1860 Apr 6, Rene Lalique (d.1945),
French goldsmith, jeweler, glassmaker and artist, was born. He helped
mold the shape of 20th century art nouveau, art deco and architectural
ornamentation.
(SFC, 3/26/97, z1 p.7)(Hem., 6/98, p.134)(MC, 4/6/02)
1862 Apr 6, Two days of bitter
fighting began at the Civil War battle of Shiloh as the Confederates
attacked Grant's Union forces in southwestern Tennessee. Union
commander Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, planning to advance on the
important railway junction at Corinth, Miss., met a surprise attack by
General Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of Mississippi. The Confederates
pushed the Federals back steadily during the first day's fighting, in
spite of Johnston's death that afternoon. Only with the arrival of
Union reinforcements during the night did the tide turn, forcing the
rebels to withdraw. The opposing sides slaughtered each other with such
ferocity that one survivor wrote, "No blaze of glory...can ever atone
for the unwritten and unutterable horrors of the scene." Gen. Ulysses
Grant after the Battle of Shiloh said: “I saw an open field... so
covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across... in
any direction, stepping on dead bodies without a foot touching the
ground.” More than 9,000 Americans died. The battle left some 24,000
casualties and secured the West for the Union. In 1952 Shelby Foote
wrote “Shiloh,” an historical novel based on documentation from
participants in the battle. Recorded Books made a cassette version in
1992.
(SFC, 6/19/96, p.E5)(HT, 4/97, p.13)(AP, 4/6/97)(AM,
May/Jun 97 p.27)(RBI, 1992)(HN, 4/6/98)(HNPD, 4/6/99)
1862 Apr 6, Albert Sidney Johnston
(59), US and Confederate general, was killed in battle of Shiloh.
(MC, 4/6/02)
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).
(HN, 4/6/99)(MC, 4/6/02)
1865 Apr 6, Reuben B. Boston, US
and Confederate cavalry colonel, died in battle.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1866 Apr 6, Butch Cassidy, [Robert
Parker], US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage), was born. [see Apr 13,15]
(MC, 4/6/02)
1866 Apr 6, Joseph Lincoln
Steffens (d.1936), American investigative reporter and muckraker
journalist (Shame of the Cities), was born: "Nothing is done.
Everything in the world remains to be done or done over." "Never
practice what you preach. If you're going to practice it, why preach
it?"
(AP, 5/16/97)(HN, 4/6/98)(AP, 4/24/98)
1866 Apr 6, G.A.R. was formed
(Grand Army of the Republic). It was composed of men who served in the
US Army and Navy during the Civil War. The last member died in 1956.
(WUD, 1994 p.614)(MC, 4/6/02)
1868 Apr 6, Brigham Young married
his 27th and final wife (I am done with wifery).
(MC, 4/6/02)
1869 Apr 6, John and Isaiah Hyatt
applied for a new patent using collodion to manufacture billiard balls.
They later named their product celluloid. It was similar to that made
by English inventor Alexander Parkes, who patented the process in
England in 1855. The new plastic could be molded and mass produced, but
was very flammable and exploded when struck with excessive force. [see
Jun 15]
(HNQ, 5/8/98)(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(MC, 4/6/02)(PCh,
1992, p.467)(ON, 11/03, p.3)
1889 Apr 6, George Eastman placed
the Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1890 Apr 6, Anthony Herman Gerard
Fokker (d.1939), aircraft pioneer, was born in Java.
(www.britannica.com)
1892 Apr 6, Donald Wills Douglas,
US aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas), was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1892 Apr 6, Lowell Thomas, author,
journalist, broadcaster and world traveler was born in Woodington,
Ohio.
(AP, 4/6/00)
1893 Apr 6, Mormon Temple in Salt
Lake City was dedicated.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1896 Apr 6, The first modern
Olympic Games formally opened in Athens, Greece after a lapse of 1,500
years. 8 nations participated. [see Mar 25]
(SFC, 7/14/96, p.T1)(AP, 4/6/97)
1896 Apr 6, James Connolly, a
self-educated 27-year-old American, won the first gold medal at the
1896 Olympic games in Athens. Connolly‘s event, the triple jump, which
was then called the hop, step, and jump, was the first final of the
games. The U.S. Olympic team hadn’t realized that the Greeks followed
the Hellenic calendar, so they arrived not days in advance but just a
few hours before the opening ceremonies. Despite being hastily
prepared, Connolly competed last and beat his opponents‘ distances by
more than three feet. He went on to become a successful author of 25
novels. [see Mar 25]
(HNQ, 4/8/00)
1897 Apr 6 & 16, Frank M.
Chapman, ornithologist with the American Museum of Natural History,
observed large numbers of flying hawks over Veracruz, Mexico.
(NH, 10/96, p.37)
1903 Apr 6, French Army
Nationalists were revealed for forging documents to guarantee a
conviction for Alfred Dreyfus, an officer accused of giving plans for
France's defense to Germany.
(HN, 4/6/99)
1905 Apr 6, W. Warrick Cardozo,
physician and pioneer researcher on Sickle Cell Anemia, was born.
(HN, 4/6/99)
1906 Apr 6, John Betjeman, English
Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion), was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1906 Apr 6, 1st animated cartoon
was copyrighted.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1909 Apr 6, 1st credit union
formed in US.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1909 Apr 6, Explorers Robert E.
Peary, Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach
the North Pole along with 4 Eskimos. Peary used Ellesmere Island as a
base for his expedition to the North Pole. The north coast of Ellesmere
lies just 480 miles from the Pole. He was accompanied by Matthew
Henson, an African-American, who had spent 18 years in the Arctic with
Peary. The claim was disputed by skeptics and in 1988 the original
navigational records were uncovered from the dog-sled voyage indicating
that Peary probably never got closer than 121 miles from the North
Pole. In 1989 the Navigation Foundation upheld that Peary reached the
North Pole.
(NG, 6/1988, 754, 757)(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B8)(SFC,
10/2/99, p.A20)(AP, 4/6/08)(SFC, 9/11/08, p.B4)
1909 Arctic explorer Frederick A.
Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole a year ahead of Peary.
Many historians suspect that neither explorer succeeded. The term “Dr.
Cook weather” refers to an incident where Dr. Cook once left a chilly
New York baseball game after which the city papers trumpeted; “Game
called—even too cold for Dr. Cook.” Cook's assertion was later proved
false.
(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B8)(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)
1912 Apr 6, Cadillac adopted an
electric self-starter. Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958), as
president of Delco, introduced the electric-starter on the 1912
Cadillac.
(www.todayinsci.com/4/4_06.htm)(http://local.aaca.org/bntc/mileposts/1912.htm)
1916 Apr 6, German government OK’d
unrestricted submarine warfare.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1917 Apr 6, The US Congress
approved a declaration of war against Germany and entered World War I
on the Allied side.
(HN, 4/6/98)(AP, 4/6/04)
1922 Apr 6, Barry Levinson,
director (Rain Man), was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1924 Apr 6, Four open-cockpit
biplanes took off from Seattle for a round the world flight. Two of the
planes made it back. They flew 26,000 miles in 363 hours over a 175
days at an average speed of 77 mph. The US Congress had to approve the
financing and the airplanes were built by Douglas Aircraft. [see May 3,
1923]
(Hem., 2/96, p.43)(HN, 4/6/98)
1924 Apr 6, Italy fascists
received 65% of vote of parliament.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1925 Apr 6, A Deutsche Lufthansa
flight debuted an in-flight movie, a silent-reel short.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
1927 Apr 6, Gerry Mulligan, jazz
saxophonist, was born.
(HN, 4/6/01)
1928 Apr 6, James Watson,
discovered structure of DNA, was born.
(HN, 4/6/98)
1929 Apr 6, "Crazy" Joe Gallo,
mobster, was born.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1929 Apr 6, Andre Previn, pianist
and conductor, was born in Berlin, Germany.
(HN, 4/6/01)(MC, 4/6/02)
1930 Apr 6, Hostess Twinkies were
invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1930 Apr 6, 1st transcontinental
glider tow was completed.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1931 Apr 6, Richard Alpert, later
known as the spiritual leader Ram Dass, was born in Boston.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.5)
1931 Apr 6, 1st broadcast of
"Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1931 Apr 6, The 1st Scottsboro
(Ala) trial began for 9 blacks accused of rape.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html)
1934 Apr 6, 418 Lutheran ministers
were arrested in Germany.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1935 Apr 6, Edwin Arlington
Robinson (b.1869), US poet, died. In 2006 Scott Donaldson authored
“Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson)(WSJ, 1/27/07,
p.P9)
1936 Apr 6, A tornado killed 203
and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1937 Apr 6, Merle Haggard,
American country musician, was born.
(HN, 4/6/01)
1938 Apr 6, Roy Plunkett, a DuPont
researcher in New Jersey, discovered the polymer,
polytetrafluoroethylene, later known as teflon.
(SFEC, 11/7/99, Par p.12)
1938 Apr 6, U.S. recognized the
German conquest of Austria.
(HN, 4/6/98)
1939 Apr 6, Great Britain and
Poland signed a military pact.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1941 Apr 6, Italian-held Addis
Ababa surrendered to British and Ethiopian forces.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1941 Apr 6, German Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop gave orders for the attack on
Yugoslavia to roll forward. Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb
Belgrade prior to the final drive into the capital. From August 6 to
10, more than 500 bombing sorties were flown against Belgrade,
inflicting more than 17,500 fatalities. Most of the government
officials fled, and the Yugoslav army began to collapse. German
Luftwaffe Marshall Alexander Lohr commanded a surprise air attack on
Belgrade and 17,000 died. Lohr was later tried and executed for the
bombings.
(www.thehistorynet.com/wwii/blbelgradebybluff/)(SFC,
4/8/99, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/20/99, p.A21)
1941 Apr 6, German troops invaded
Yugoslavia and Greece. Italian and Albanian forces attacked and jointly
occupied Yugoslavia. Germany, with support of Italy and other allies
defeated Greece and Yugoslavia.
(WUD, 1944, p.1683)(SFC, 4/5/97, p.A20)(www,
Albania, 1998)
1941 Apr 6-7, The Luftwaffe
delivered a heavy blow to the British expedition when German bombers
seriously damaged Piraeus, the port of Athens sinking seven merchant
ships, sixty lighters and 25 caiques.
(www.diggerhistory.info/pages-battles/ww2/greece.htm)
1943 Apr 6, British and American
armies army linked up in Africa.
(HN, 4/6/98)
1944 Apr 6,
German trucks rolled up to the safehouse of Sabina Zlatin in Izieu-Ain,
France, and 44 children and 7 teachers including Mr. Zlatin were
arrested. The raid was ordered by Klaus Barbie, head of the German
police in Lyons.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.B2)(MC, 4/6/02)
1945 Apr 6, During World War II,
the Japanese warship Yamato and nine other vessels sailed on a suicide
mission to attack the U.S. fleet off Okinawa; the fleet was intercepted
the next day.
(AP, 4/6/99)
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.
(http://americantheatrewing.org/tony/history_of_the_tony_awards.php)
1954 Apr 6, Four weeks after being
attacked on the air by Edward R. Murrow, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,
R-Wis., delivered a filmed response on CBS' "See It Now" in which he
charged that Murrow had, in the past, "engaged in propaganda for
Communist causes."
(AP, 4/6/04)
1956 Apr 6, Polish communist
Gomulka was freed from prison.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1957 Apr 6, NYC ended trolley car
service.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1959 Apr 6, In the 31st Academy
Awards "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven won.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1963 Apr 6, The
United States and Britain signed an agreement under which the Americans
would sell Polaris A-3 missiles to the British.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1965 Apr 6, President Lyndon B.
Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations.
(HN, 4/6/99)
1965 Apr 6, The
United States launched the Intelsat I, also known as the "Early Bird"
communications satellite.
(AP, 4/6/08)
1966 Apr 6, Emmett Ashford became
the first African-American major league umpire. The highly regarded
umpire was known for his dynamic and distinctive style of calling balls
and strikes.
(HN, 4/12/99)(HNQ,
4/15/00)(http://netscape.net/picassoaustin/homepage)
1968 Apr 6, In Richmond, Indiana,
gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store exploded and at least 16
people were killed.
(www.gendisasters.com/data1/in/explosions/richmond-gasexplosion-apr1968.htm)
1968 Apr 6, Black Panther member
Bobby Hutton (17) was killed in a gun battle with police in West
Oakland, Ca., and Eldridge Cleaver was arrested.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A13)
1968 Apr 6, East German voters
approved a new socialist constitution by a 94.5% margin.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_Constitution)
1969 Apr 6, Sir Wally Herbert
(1934-2007), English explorer, reached the North Pole on foot along
with 3 others on his team. They became the first men to cross the
entire frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean on foot covering the 3,720
miles in 16 months. Roy Koerner, a glaciologist accompanying Herbert,
drilled more than 250 ice core samples during the journey.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1929131.ece)
1971 Apr 6, Igor
Stravinsky (b.1882), Russian-born composer, died in NYC.
(AP,
4/6/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky)
1972 Apr 6, Six US helicopter crew
members were killed in Vietnam during a heroic rescue attempt of Air
Force Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton (1918-2004), who had been shot down on
April 2. Five aircraft crews were shot down during the rescue attempts.
The 1988 film "Bat-21" was about their mission. Hambleton was rescued
on April 13.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A3)(SFC, 5/29/03,
p.A19)(www.taskforceomegainc.org/g095.html)
1972 Apr 6, US Capt. John W.
Ripley (d.2008 at 69) helped stop a column of North Vietnamese tanks by
blowing up a pair of bridges at Dong Ha during the 1972 Easter
Offensive of the Vietnam War.
(http://kbc3337design.tripod.com/ripley.htm)
1973 Apr 6, Yankee Ron Blomberg
(b.1948) became the 1st designated hitter. He walked.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Blomberg)
1974 Apr 6, Willem Dudok (b.1884),
Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Marinus_Dudok)
1975 Apr 6, Bundy victim Denise
Oliverson (25) disappeared from Grand Junction, Colo.
(www.crimenews2000.com/memorial/00052902pg8.htm)
1979 Apr 6, The U.S. cut off aid
to Pakistan, because of that country’s covert construction of a uranium
enrichment facility.
(HNQ, 11/14/99)
1979 Apr 6, In India the United
Liberation Front of Assam was created to fight for independence from
India. The Ahom tribe was the major ethnic group of Assam.
(SFC, 4/5/00, p.A11)(AP, 4/6/09)
1977 Apr 6, The Seattle Kingdome
opened and the Mariners lost their to Angels 7-0. The Seattle Mariners
baseball team were created following the 1970 departure of the
1-year-old Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee.
(SFC, 2/18/02, p.B6)(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.B1)(MC, 4/6/02)
1978 Apr 6, Nicolas Nabokov
(b.1903), Russian-born American composer, died. His work included the
opera “Rasputin's End” with a libretto by Stephen Spender (1958).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Nabokov)
1979 Apr 6, The U.S. cut off aid
to Pakistan, because of that country’s covert construction of a uranium
enrichment facility.
(HNQ, 11/14/99)
1980 Apr 6, Post-It Notes were
introduced.
(http://bookworm.typepad.com/blog/favorite_things/index.html)
1983 Apr 6, Saying rock 'n' roll
bands attracted "the wrong element," Interior Secretary James Watt
declined to invite the Beach Boys to perform at a Washington Fourth of
July celebration -- a stand he later reversed.
(AP, 4/6/98)
1983 Apr 6, Melida Anaya Montes
("Comandante Ana Maria"), Salvadoran FMLN guerrilla leader, was killed
in Nicaragua, where many Salvadoran guerrillas took refuge under its
leftist government. In 2007 her body was exhumed and buried in her
homeland.
(AP,
6/14/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mar%C3%ADa)
1984 Apr 6, Pioneer Courthouse
Square opened in Portland.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A6)
1984 Apr 6, 1st time 11 people in
space.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_records)
1985 Apr 6, William J. Schroeder
became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the
hospital as he moved into an apartment in Louisville, Ky.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1987 Apr 6, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above 2,400 for the first time.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1987 Apr 6, Sugar Ray Leonard
upset Marvelous Marvin Hagler to become middleweight champion.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1987 Apr 6, Los Angeles Dodgers
executive Al Campanis said on ABC's "Nightline" that blacks "may not
have some of the necessities" to hold managerial jobs in major-league
baseball. Campanis ended up being fired over his remarks.
(AP, 4/6/07)
1988 Apr 6, Black Arctic explorer
Matthew Henson (1866-1955) was re-buried next to Robert Peary in
Arlington, Va.
(www.answers.com/topic/matthew-henson)
1988 Apr 6, Tirza Porat (15), was
killed in a West Bank melee, becoming the first Israeli civilian to die
in the occupied territories since the start of the Palestinian
uprising. Although Arabs were initially blamed, the army concluded that
a Jewish settler accidentally shot the girl.
(AP, 4/6/98)
1989 Apr 6, Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev met with British PM Margaret Thatcher in London, holding
daylong talks that were characterized as argumentative, but friendly.
(AP, 4/6/99)
1990 Apr 6, US Secretary of State
James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze concluded
three days of talks in Washington, after which Shevardnadze handed
President Bush a letter from Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
(AP, 4/6/00)
1991 Apr 6, Bosnian Serbs began a
war in a quest for their own ethnically pure republic.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.A6)
1991 Apr 6, Iraq reluctantly
agreed to accept United Nations conditions for ending the Persian Gulf
War.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(AP, 4/6/01)
1992 Apr 6, Oriole Park at Camden
Yards opened and Baltimore beat Cleveland 2-0.
(www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/oriole.htm)
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.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1992 Apr 6, Microsoft released
Windows 3.1.
(www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/poole.mspx)
1992 Apr 6, Molly Picon (b.1898),
Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey), died of Alzheimer's.
(http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/picon/mp25.html)
1992 Apr 6,
Isaac Asimov (72), science fiction author, died in New York. He had
authored 467 books.
(AP, 4/6/97)(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.D1)
1992 Apr 6, Alija Izetbegovic
declared independence for Bosnia. The European Community recognized the
former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state.
(AP, 4/6/02)(SFC, 10/20/03, p.A18)
1992 Apr 6, War broke out in
northern Bosnia between the Bosnian government and local Serbs who
began to lay siege to the capital Serajevo. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic, a psychiatrist, began the war in Bosnia with the help of
Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic, who ruled Yugoslavia and the old
Yugoslav People’s Army.
(SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-11)(WP. 6/29/96,
p.A20)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1992 Apr 6, In Peru journalist
Gustavo Gorriti was kidnapped hours after Fujimori seized dictatorial
powers, announcing over television that he was closing Congress because
it was sabotaging his war against the rebels. Gorriti was released the
next day after an intense campaign by international journalist
associations and human rights groups for his freedom. Pres. Fujimori
closed Congress and the judiciary and ruled by decree for the rest of
the year.
(SFE, 9/17/96, p.A11)(AP, 1/5/08)
1993 Apr 6, In a televised speech
a year after ethnic warfare erupted in Bosnia, the president of the
Muslim-led government, Alija Izetbegovic, compared that destructive
nationalism to Nazism.
(AP, 4/6/98)
1994 Apr 6, Supreme Court Justice
Harry A. Blackmun announced his retirement after 24 years. Two months
before his retirement he declared his opposition to capital punishment
because the system was fraught with discrimination and mistakes. He
stepped aside to allow Pres. Clinton to appoint his replacement. In
1999 David N. Atkinson published "Leaving the Bench," a historical look
At the conditions under which Supreme Court justices retire.
(AP, 4/6/97)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A16)
1994 Apr 6, A car rigged with
explosives detonated next to a bus in Afula, Israel. 8 Israelis were
killed and 45 wounded in Hamas's 1st car bombing.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
4/6/99)(SFC, 3/23/04, p.A11)
1994 Apr 6, The presidents of
Rwanda and Burundi were killed on a return trip from Tanzania in a
mysterious plane crash near Kigali, Rwanda; widespread violence erupted
in Rwanda over claims the plane had been shot down: Agatha
Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda’s and Africa’s 1st female PM, Cyprian Niayamira
(Ntaryamira), president of Burundi (1993-94) and Juvenal Habyarimana,
president of Rwanda (1973) were killed. In Rwanda the Interhamwe, an
extremist organization, and the Rwandan armed forces, FAR, launched a
massacre of Tutsis and sympathizers that killed some 800,000. [see Aug
1, 1997] A French report in 2004 concluded that Paul Kagame, Tutsi
rebel leader, was behind the crash. In 2010 a Rwandan
government-commissioned inquiry said Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down
the Hutu president's plane and sparked the slaughter of more than
500,000 people.
(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)(SFC, 2/21/97, p.A26)(AP,
4/6/99)(SFC, 2/11/04, p.A8)(AP, 1/12/10)
1995 Apr 6, The US Senate
unanimously approved a $16 billion package of cuts in social programs.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., apologized on the
Senate floor for lampooning O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito on a
nationally syndicated radio program by employing a mock Japanese accent.
(AP, 4/6/05)
1996 Apr 6, A sorrowful President
Clinton was on hand at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the
arrival of 33 flag-draped caskets carrying the remains of Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown and other victims of a plane crash in Croatia.
(AP, 4/6/97)
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.
(SFC, 4/14/96, p.C-5)(AP, 4/6/97)
1996 Apr 6, Actress Greer Garson
died in Dallas at age 92.
(SFC, 4/7/96, p.B-5)(AP, 4/6/97)
1996 Apr 6, Cilipi Airport
maintenance chief, Niko Junic, committed suicide at his home in
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
(SFC, 4/8/96, p.A-8)
1996 Apr 6, Fighting and looting
began in Monrovia, Liberia, and a six year civil war resumed between
rival ethnic groups. Supporters of Roosevelt Johnson faced off
against the ruling council of state, which sacked Johnson as
rural development minister and ordered his arrest for murder. Johnson
accused Charles Taylor of violating the Abuja accord of August, which
set up a transitional government.
(SFC, 4/10/96, p.A-4)(SFC, 4/18/96, p.a-12)
1997 Apr 6, NASA officials
announced they were cutting short the 16-day mission of space shuttle
Columbia by 12 days because of a deteriorating and potentially
explosive power generator.
(AP, 4/6/02)
1997 Apr 6, A blizzard shut down
much of the northern Plains.
(AP, 4/6/98)
1997 Apr 6, Jack Kent Cooke (84),
owner of the Washington Redskins, died. Settlement of his will took 7
years and cost $64 million in professional fees.
(AP, 4/6/98)(WSJ, 7/9/04, p.A1)
1997 Apr 6, In Algeria attackers
massacred 90 villagers at various sites over the last 2 days. 52 people
had their throats slit near Medea by about 50 killers; 15 were killed
in Amroussa and their bodies were burned with gasoline.
(SFC, 4/7/97, p.A8)
1997 Apr 6, In Burma a bomb
exploded at the Rangoon home of Lt. Gen’l. Tin Oo and killed his
daughter, Cho Lei Oo (34).
(WSJ, 4/8/97, p.A1)(SFC, 4/8/97, p.A10)
1997 Apr 6, In Peru Leonor LaRosa
revealed her torture and beatings to a television station.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.A10)
1998 Apr 6, The British TV program
for toddlers, “Teletubbies,” opened in the US.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.E1)
1998 Apr 6, Pres. Clinton
announced a ban on imports of 58 types of military-style assault
weapons.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, Energy Secretary
Federico Pena announced his resignation.
(AP, 4/6/99)
1998 Apr 6, The Dow Jones
industrial average closed above 9,000 for the first time.
(CNBC, 4/6/98)(AP, 4/6/99)
1998 Apr 6, Citicorp (Citibank)
under Sandy Weill and Travelers Group announced a merger in an $82
billion deal that would create the world’s largest financial services
company. The merger was completed in October.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A1)(Econ, 2/5/05, p.69)
1998 Apr 6, National Semiconductor
announced a new single chip computer system. It would hit the
mass-market in June 1999.
(WSJ, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, It was announced that
the drug tamoxifen cut the risk of breast cancer by half, but that it
had potentially serious side effects.
(WSJ, 4/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 6, Tammy Wynette (55),
country singer, died at her Nashville, Tenn., home. Her songs included
the 1968 hit “Stand by Your Man.”
(SFC, 4/798, p.A7)(AP, 4/6/99)
1998 Apr 6, In Algeria armed
groups killed at least 35 civilians in 2 separate attacks. 27 were
killed near Oran and 89 near M’Sila.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A16)
1998 Apr 6, Pakistan reported a
successful test of medium-range missile from its Kahuta nuclear
research lab. It was capable of carrying nuclear warheads with a range
of 900 miles.
(SFC, 4/798, p.A16)(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.A15)
1998 Apr 6, From Uganda it was
reported that rebels in western Uganda, who were short of food, had
abducted a number of villagers and resorted to cannibalism.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
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).
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, In Massachusetts Maria
Grasso (54), a Chilean immigrant working as a baby sitter for a
millionaire, won the $197 million Big Game jackpot.
(SFC, 4/15/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 6, In East Timor gunmen
fired shots and lobbed grenades into a church where 1500 residents had
taken refuge. Some 40 people were reported killed in Liquica and 5
people were shot to death at the home of a parish priest. Military
officials denied the massacre and a bishop later said the number killed
might be less than 40. At least 25 people were killed by members of the
Red and White Iron (Besi Merah Putih) militia group.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)(WSJ, 4/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/9/99,
p.D2)(WSJ, 8/24/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 6, In Indonesia troops
opened fire on Christian and Muslim gangs in the Spice Islands where a
week of rioting left 76 dead.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, In Iraq 4 men were
hanged for the Feb murder of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sader, a top Shiite
cleric.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 6, NATO bombed Yugoslav
forces in Montenegro.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A16)
1999 Apr 6, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic announced a unilateral Easter cease-fire through to Sunday.
NATO rejected the proposal and escalated its aerial bombardment on
Serbian forces and supplies.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/20/99, p.A7)
1999 Apr 6, A submerged truck in
the Danube at Kladovo was found to contain the dozens of decomposed
corpses that included women, children and old people. Police took the
bodies and blew up the truck. The bodies were found in 2001 in a mass
grave at a police training camp in Batajnica, a Belgrade suburb.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.D4)(SFC, 6/14/01, p.A14)
1999 Apr 6, In Sierra Leone rebels
ambushed 2 passenger boats on the Mabang River and 60 people were
killed.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.C12)
1999 Apr 6, In Uganda rebels of
the Allied Democratic Forces killed 11 civilians near Bundibugyio by
the Congolese border.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A13)
2000 Apr 6, A private company
mapping the human genetic blueprint announced it had decoded all of the
DNA pieces that make up the genetic pattern of a single human being.
(AP, 4/6/01)
2000 Apr 6, The Muslim new year
1421 began with the new moon.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A18)
2000 Apr 6, US and British
warplanes bombed military sites in southern Iraq and Iraqi military
reported 14 civilians killed and 19 wounded.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000 Apr 6, Juan Miguel Gonzalez,
the father of Elian Gonzalez, arrived in Washington DC with his wife
and baby son to press his case for the return of his son from relatives
in Miami.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/6/01)
2000 Apr 6, In Colombia suspected
rightist paramilitaries killed 21 unarmed residents of Tibu.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000 Apr 6, In Pakistan the
Anti-Terrorist Court declared the former PM Nawaz Sharif guilty of
attempted hijacking and terrorism and sentenced him to two life
imprisonment terms of 25 years each which would run concurrently.
(www.ciaonet.org/olj/sa/sa_jan01kus01.html)
2000 Apr 6, Two Russian cosmonauts
docked with Mir. The destruction of the space station was delayed after
MirCorp. of Amsterdam agreed in Feb. to pay $10-20 million to lease
commercial rights.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.T12)
2000 Apr 6, In Tunisia Habib
Bourguiba former president and independence leader, died at age 96.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D5)
2000 Apr 6, In Uganda authorities
issued 6 arrest warrants for the prominent figures of the doomsday
sect: Joseph Kibwetere, Credonia Mwerinde, Dominic Kataribabo, Joseph
Kasapurari, John Kamagara, and Ursula Komuhangi. All were charged with
10 counts of murder, representing the first 10 identified victims of
924 corpses.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 6, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez announced that the Pemon tribe had dropped their opposition to
construction of a 136-mile electrical line in the Canaima National Park.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000 Apr 6, In Zimbabwe ruling
party lawmakers approved a bill empowering the government to seize
white-owned land without compensation. The squatter occupation reached
to 940 farms. 6 Western donors suspended $10 million in land reform aid.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.D4)
2001 Apr 6, US officials announced
some progress toward the release of 24 military personnel in China and
hoped to establish a joint US-China commission to examine the April 1
collision of a US spy plane and Chinese jet.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.1)
2001 Apr 6, Algerian national
Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the United States
just days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in
the same day — first in France for belonging to a group supporting
Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
(AP, 4/6/02)
2001 Apr 6, US unemployment was
reported to be 4.3%, the highest since July, 1999.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.D1)
2001 Apr 6, In California PG&E
filed for bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt in an offshoot of the
California energy crisis. Just before filing the utility awarded
bonuses and raises to 6,000 senior managers and other employees. SF
Judge Dennis Montali was assigned the case.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A1,3)(AP, 4/6/02)
2001 Apr 6, Bosnian Croats stoned
Nato peacekeepers after police and troops seized the Hercegovacka Banka
and its 10 branches. The bank was believed to be used by the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ) to promote a separate Croatian ministate.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 6, In Japan Parliament
approved its 1st law to protect victims of domestic violence.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 6, In Pakistan the
Supreme Court set aside the conviction of Benazir Bhutto and her
imprisoned husband Asif Ali Zardari and ordered a retrial.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A10)
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."
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A3)(AP, 4/6/03)
2002 Apr 6, Arab League ministers
in emergency session denounced the Bush administration’s handling of
the Middle East conflict. Some 15k Jordanians marched in Ibrid. Over
20k marched in Paris and another 20k marched in Rome.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A7)
2002 Apr 6, In Colombia FARC
rebels shot and killed police officers Norberto Perez and Victor Manuel
Marulanda as they tried to escape.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A8)
2002 Apr 6, Israeli troops
intensified their assault on West Bank towns and refugee camps. Over 20
thousand Jews and Arabs marched in Tel Aviv demanding that the
government withdraw from the West Bank and resume talks.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 6, South Korea envoy Lim
Dong Won said North Korea is ready to resume dialogue with the US.
(SFC, 4/6/02, p.A8)
2003 Apr 6, Babatunde Olatunji,
Nigerian drummer, died at the Esalen Inst. in Big Sur, Ca. He pioneered
African music in the US with his 1959 album "Drums of Passion."
(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A31)
2003 Apr 6, Afghan officials
announced a plan to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate an estimated
100,000 fighters over the next 3 years.
(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A3)
2003 Apr 6, Police in Chechnya
said they had discovered four graves filled with disfigured bodies,
many of them with their heads and arms cut off. Pro-Moscow Chechen
policeman Ruslan Visarigov was killed by a mine near his home in the
Shelkovskaya district. Rebels killed 4 servicemen and wounded 10 others
in attacks over the past 24 hours.
(AP, 4/6/03)(AP, 4/7/03)
2003 Apr 6, In eastern China a
fire roared through a food processing plant, killing 21 workers.
(AP, 4/6/03)
2003 Apr 6, Indian troops killed
Fayaz Ahmad Khan, a top commander of Harkat-ul Mujahedeen, a Kashmiri
guerrilla group that is suspected in the 1995 abduction of six Western
tourists and a 1999 airliner hijacking.
(AP, 4/6/03)
2003 Apr 6, In the 19th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom 18 Kurdish fighters were killed and 45 wounded
in northern Iraq when a US warplane mistakenly bombed a convoy. The 1st
US transport plane landed at Baghdad Airport. US forces near Baghdad
reportedly found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range Rockets,
BM-21 missiles, equipped with sarin and mustard gas and "ready to
fire." David Bloom (39), NBC correspondent, died of a pulmonary
embolism south of Baghdad. Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi exile leader, was
airlifted by the US along with 700 "freedom fighters" to southern Iraq
to join coalition troops and form the nucleus of a new national army.
(AP, 4/6/03)(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/7/03,
p.A1)(WSJ, 4/8/03, p.A10)(AP, 4/6/08)
2003 Apr 6, The Int'l Committee of
the Red Cross said the number of casualties in Baghdad was so high that
hospitals have stopped counting the number of people treated. A convoy
of Russian diplomats, including the ambassador, came under fire as the
group was evacuating Baghdad. British forces made their deepest push
into Basra, Iraq's second-largest city.
(AP, 4/6/03)(AP, 4/6/08)
2003 Apr 6, Israeli troops in the
Gaza Strip killed a Hamas gunman and a 14-year-old boy.
(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A8)
2003 Apr 6, In Capetown, SA,
Roxanne Dickson (5) became the 7th child to die from gang violence in
the last month. Some 280 gangs operated in Western Cape, a province of
about 3 million people, 5 percent of whom are believed to belong to
gangs.
(AP, 4/12/03)
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.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2004 Apr 6, China issued a major
ruling on how Hong Kong chooses its leaders, saying the territory must
submit proposed political reforms to Beijing for approval.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 6, In Ecuador in the
midst of a national strike by prison guards, inmates in Quito's women's
prison took two television news crews hostage to press their demands
for shorter sentences and better living conditions.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 6, In Indonesia the
Golkar Party of former dictator Suharto held a slight lead in
parliamentary elections. Golkar won the most seats in the parliamentary
election with 21.6 percent. Pres. Sukarnoputri’s Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle (PDI-P) won 18.5%.
(AP, 4/6/04)(AP, 5/5/04)(Econ, 5/8/04, p.42)
2004 Apr 6, Insurgents and
rebellious Shiites mounted a string of attacks across Iraq's south and
U.S. Marines launched a major assault on the turbulent city of
Fallujah. Up to a dozen Marines were killed in Ramadi. Two more
coalition soldiers were reported killed. US warplanes firing rockets
destroyed four houses in the besieged city of Fallujah. A doctor said
26 Iraqis, including women and children, were killed and 30 wounded in
the strike. British troops killed 15 Iraqis in Amara. In Nasiriya 15
Iraqis were killed in fighting with Italian troops
(AP, 4/6/04)(SFC, 4/7/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 6, Jordan's military
court convicted 8 Muslim militants and sentenced them to death for the
2002 killing of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in a terror conspiracy
linked to al-Qaida.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2004 Apr 6, In Lithuania lawmakers
narrowly ousted Rolandas Paksas, the scandal-ridden president, for
abuse of office, passing all three accusations against Paksas: that he
illegally arranged citizenship for one of his chief financial backers,
businessman Yuri Borisov; that he divulged state secrets; and that he
used his office for financial gain.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 6, The Barcelona city
council passed a resolution condemning bullfighting and declaring the
city Spain's first to come out against the centuries-old sport.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 6, With Tamil Tiger
rebels threatening to restart the civil war, Sri Lanka's newly
installed PM called on neighboring India to help revive the island's
faltering peace process.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2005 Apr 6, A joint session of US
Congress listened to Ukrainian Pres. Yushchenko as he called for an end
to trade barriers and a new era in US-Ukraine relations.
(SFC, 4/7/05, p.A8)
2005 Apr 6, Matthew Hale (33), an
avowed white supremacist, was sentenced in Chicago to 40 years in
prison for trying to have a federal judge killed in 2002.
(SFC, 4/7/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 6, Frank Conroy (69),
novelist and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, died in Iowa City.
(WSJ, 5/18/05, p.D14)
2005 Apr 6, The World Bank warned
that the global economic recovery has peaked and that the severity of
the coming slowdown depended on how skittish foreign investors are
about buying US-dollar denominated assets.
(WSJ, 4/7/05, p.A2)
2005 Apr 6, In southeast
Afghanistan a US military helicopter crashed in bad weather. 15 US
service members and 3 American civilians were killed when their Chinook
helicopter crashed.
(AP, 4/7/05)
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.
(AP, 4/7/05)
2005 Apr 6, The European
Commission proposed a major boost in EU spending in the 2007-2013
period to create jobs, spur growth and fund programs to make the
25-nation European Union safer and healthier for its 455 million
inhabitants.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, Under pressure to stem
a rising tide of textile imports from China, the European Union's
executive unveiled guidelines for imposing curbs on a country which
already has 20 percent of a $400 billion market.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, Colombia's president
met top Chinese leaders during a visit to boost trade, seek financing
for an oil pipeline and to promote sales of Colombian coal to fuel
China's booming economy.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, Marxist rebels
ambushed a Colombian military convoy on Wednesday, killing 17 soldiers,
the latest in a spate of bloody attacks that have undermined government
claims the rebels are being defeated.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, In India police beat
up hundreds of people protesting against the razing of their homes by
the government in the country's financial hub, Bombay. Authorities
flattened an estimated 90,000 shanties in the city early in January.
The slum clearance drive has left more than 300,000 people homeless.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, The Iraqi parliament
chose Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new interim
president, reaching out to a long-repressed minority and bringing the
country closer to its first democratically elected government in 50
years.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, In Srinagar 2
suspected Islamic militants stormed a building housing passengers on
the eve of a historic bus ride across the divided Himalayan territory
of Kashmir, in an attack targeting the biggest India-Pakistan peace
gesture in decades. Both attackers were killed and at least six people
wounded, but all the bus passengers were safe.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 6, Ivory Coast's warring
factions agreed to end hostilities, start immediate disarmament and
make plans for new elections.
(AP, 4/6/05)(Econ, 4/16/05, p.39)
2005 Apr 6, Prince Rainier III
(b.1923) of Monaco died at age 81, nearly a month after he was
hospitalized with a lung infection. His fairy-tale marriage to
Hollywood star Grace Kelly brought elegance and glamour to one of
Europe's oldest dynasties.
(AP, 4/6/05)(SFC, 4/6/05, p.A8)
2005 Apr 6, Pakistani police
arrested some 40 faithful of the Muttahida Majlis Amal in Gujranwala as
they protested a mixed sporting event. The MMA, a 6-party religious
alliance, has demanded the ouster of Pres. Musharraf for being pro-West
and secular.
(Econ, 4/16/05, p.38)
2005 Apr 6, Security forces killed
one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted Islamic militants. At least 14
militants were killed over the 4 straight days of shootouts with
extremists in different parts of the kingdom.
(AP, 4/6/05)(SFC, 4/6/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 6, South Korea, faced
with ballooning foreign-exchange reserves, announced plans to drive
companies to invest excess dollars abroad rather than at home.
(WSJ, 4/5/05, p.A15)
2005 Apr 6, Security forces
stormed the headquarters of Sudan's main opposition party, arresting
scores of its members and top officials, apparently because of
celebrations marking an anti-government uprising nearly 20 years ago.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2006 Apr 6, Newly released court
records cited Lewis "Scooter" Libby saying that in the summer of 2003
President Bush told Vice President Cheney to tell the vice president's
chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to disclose highly classified
information regarding Iraq intelligence in order to try and discredit
legitimate criticism of the administration.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Louis Eppolito (57)
and Steven Caracappa (64), former NYC detectives, were convicted of
moonlighting as hit men for Anthony Casso, a Luchese family underboss
from 1986-1990.
(SFC, 4/7/06, p.A8)
2006 Apr 6, At the death penalty
trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani described his own harrowing experience in lower
Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2006 Apr 6, US Rep. Cynthia
McKinney (D-Ga.) apologized for an altercation in which she'd entered a
Capitol building unrecognized, refused to stop when asked by a police
officer and then hit him.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2006 Apr 6, Maine’s Gov. John
Baldacci signed legislation to allow stiffer penalties for those
convicted of attacks on homeless people.
(SFC, 4/7/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 6, Gold futures climbed
to a 25-year high of 601.90 in Asian trading and settled at 599.70 per
ounce in NY.
(SFC, 4/7/06, p.D1)
2006 Apr 6, In California 3 ski
patrollers were killed when snow collapsed around a volcanic gas vent
at Mammoth Lakes.
(SFC, 4/7/06, p.A2)
2006 Apr 6, A manuscript called
the Judas Gospel, probably copied from the original Greek around the
year 300, was unveiled. Discovered in the 1970s near Minya, Egypt, the
volume, including the gospel and other documents, was sold to an
Egyptian antiquities dealer in 1978.
(Reuters, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, A mortar blast near
the main US military base in Afghanistan left a civilian dead.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Britain's national
farming union said tests have confirmed a dead swan found in Scotland
had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, In Colombia bombs
exploded on two buses in a working class district of Bogota, injuring
two dozen passengers, including three children with burns over half
their body.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, A government minister
said Egypt has found two more people infected with the bird flu virus,
bringing the number of human cases in the country to 11.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, In Guatemala Mario
Pivaral, an opposition congressman, was shot to death as he stepped out
of his party's headquarters, the 2nd lawmaker assassinated in the past
two years.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Students protesting a
new labor law put more pressure on France's embattled government by
blocking roads, trains and a convoy of parts heading to the factory
that builds the world's largest airliner.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Shiite politicians
also blocked a bid to have parliament try to break the deadlock on
forming a new government. A car bomb exploded in the Shiite holy city
of Najaf, killing at least 13 people.
(AP, 4/6/06)(SFC, 4/7/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 6, An Iraqi soldier
allegedly shot and killed a US Marine at a base near the Syrian border.
Another American Marine then wounded the Iraqi soldier. One US service
member was killed by a roadside bomb near Beiji and another in action
in Anbar province.
(AP, 4/7/06)
2006 Apr 6, Israeli President
Moshe Katsav formally chose acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to form
Israel's next government.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Japan said it would
launch free trade talks with six Gulf kingdoms that provide
three-quarters of its oil imports, during a visit by a Saudi crown
prince aimed at expanding business ties.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, At least 28 people
received medical attention after suspected pickpockets used
pepper-spray to escape police at a Tokyo train station. Media reports
said the suspects are believed to be members of a South Korean
organized pickpocket gang which has preyed on Japan's train system.
(AFP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, An attack in Laos
killed 26 Hmong civilians, mainly unarmed women and children. In June
the US called on communist-ruled Laos to investigate the murder of the
Hmong civilians amid allegations that Lao military forces had killed
the group.
(AFP, 6/2/06)
2006 Apr 6, In Mexico hundreds of
machete-wielding farmers opposed to a hydroelectric dam project briefly
seized a pumping plant, cutting off much of the water supply to
Acapulco just days before tourists flock to the Pacific resort for
their Easter vacations.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, In Nepal police
arrested 300 protesters in Katmandu, chasing them down narrow lanes and
beating them with batons on the first day of a general strike to demand
the king restore democracy. Maoist rebels said they had shot down an
army helicopter for the first time, during clashes in which police
reported five of their officers and three guerrillas killed.
(AP, 4/6/06)(AFP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Palestinian PM Ismail
Haniya said his Hamas-led government would study any Israeli offer for
negotiations following an unprecedented peace overture to the UN.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Russian prosecutors
said Vasily Aleksanian, an executive recently assigned to saving Yukos,
Russia's former biggest oil producer, from bankruptcy was arrested on
charges of embezzlement and money-laundering.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, It was reported that
Russian health and sanitary officials had imposed a ban on Georgian and
Moldovan wines effective May 1. Authorities said the wines contained
pesticides and heavy metals. The ban was soon extended to brandy and
sparkling wines.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 6, Cheese and butter from
the Danish company Arla were back on supermarket shelves in Saudi
Arabia after an Islamic group ended a boycott of the dairy producer
sparked by Denmark's publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2007 Apr 6, The US Department of
Education said an official in its student financial aid office has been
placed on paid leave while his stock ownership in a student loan
company is being reviewed.
(Reuters, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, Arizona authorities
found at least 80 suspected illegal immigrants in a house west of
Phoenix and arrested two suspected smugglers.
(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, In Florida US District
Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled that Luis Posada Carriles could be
released on $250,000 bond. He is being held at the Otero County jail in
New Mexico on charges he lied to immigration authorities in a bid to
become a naturalized citizen. Posada, a former CIA operative, is wanted
in Cuba in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people,
a charge Posada denies. Castro has repeatedly accused the US government
of protecting Posada.
(AP, 4/11/07)
2007 Apr 6, Supernova SN2007bi was
first observed in a nearby dwarf galaxy. It burned steadily for months.
In 2009 scientists reported that the explosion was probably that of a
super massive star, at least two hundred times the mass of the Sun.
(www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=astronomers-witness-biggest-st)
2007 Apr 6, in Afghanistan a
suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint in Kabul, killing four
people, including a policeman who tried to stop him. Taliban rebels
seized control of Khak Afghan district in southern Zabul province.
(AP, 4/6/07)(AFP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, A Royal Navy
lieutenant who was among the captives held by Iran said British sailors
and marines held for nearly two weeks were blindfolded, bound and
threatened with prison if they did not say they strayed into Iranian
waters.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, Health officials said
teenage girls in Cambodia and Indonesia have died of bird flu as the
virus continues to stalk across Asia.
(AP, 4/6/07)
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.
(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, The Greek cruise ship
Sea Diamond, which had struck a volcanic reef and forced the evacuation
of hundreds of tourists sank, 15 hours after it began taking on water
off the coast of Santarini Island. Navy divers searched around the
sunken wreckage for a Frenchman and his daughter, the only two
passengers still missing.
(AP, 4/6/07)(SFC, 4/6/07, p.A2)
2007 Apr 6, Iraq’s government it
has ordered that senior officers of Saddam Hussein's military receive
pensions and requested that lower-ranking soldiers serve again as part
of a sectarian reconciliation plan. The decision was made last month. A
suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas
crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi, killing at least 27
people and wounding dozens. American troops swept into the troubled,
predominantly Shiite city of Diwaniyah before dawn, killing three
militia fighters and capturing 27 in the first day of an assault, named
"Operation Black Eagle." In Baghdad, two American soldiers were killed
and seven were wounded by two separate roadside bombs.
(AP, 4/6/07)(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, Amado Ramirez, the
Acapulco correspondent for Mexico's top television news network, was
shot to death.
(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, In southern Nigeria
gunmen kidnapped two Turkish engineers from their car in Port Harcourt.
(Reuters, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, Pakistani mullah Abdul
Aziz said he had set up a Taliban-style Islamic court at his mosque in
Islamabad and pledged "tens of thousands" of suicide attacks if the
government tries to shut it down.
(AFP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, Pasteur Bizimungu,
Rwanda's first post-genocide leader, walked free from prison after a
surprise presidential pardon of his convictions that included inciting
ethnic tension.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, In Saudi Arabia Waleed
bin Mutlaq al-Radadi, among the kingdom's most wanted terrorists, was
killed in a gunbattle with Saudi forces. Al-Radadi was implicated in
the Feb 26 killing of 4 French nationals.
(AP, 4/18/07)
2007 Apr 6, Somali pirates freed
two hijacked merchant ships, including one that had just delivered UN
food aid when it was seized more than a month ago with 12 crew on board.
(AP, 4/7/07)
2007 Apr 6, A Chinese delegation
arrived in Sudan's troubled Darfur region for a 4-day visit. They met
officials and visited camps for the internally displaced.
(AP, 4/8/07)
2007 Apr 6, UN climate experts
issued their starkest warning yet about the impact of global warming,
ranging from hunger in Africa to a fast thaw in the Himalayas, in a
report that increased pressure on governments to act.
(Reuters, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 6, Human migrant
traffickers forced some 300 African migrants to jump into the sea off
Yemen causing at least 32 to die.
(SFC, 4/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Apr 6, Zimbabwe police said
they have opened a murder investigation into the death of an
independent journalist. The body of Edward Chikombo was found March 31.
He had been missing since March 29. A lawyer for another reporter
arrested under sweeping media laws said he was assaulted and tortured
in custody.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2008 Apr 6, American evangelist
John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to Israeli causes and said
that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Texas Erick Daniel
Davila (21) opened fire at a child’s birthday party killing Annette
Stevenson (48), her granddaughter (5) died the next day.
(SFC, 4/9/08, p.A4)
2008 Apr 6, US and Afghan forces
attacked a remote village in a mountainous region of northeastern
Afghanistan following reports that an infamous insurgent leader was in
the area. At least 16 people were killed.
(AP, 4/7/08)
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.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Merritt, British
Columbia, a girl and two boys aged 10, 8 and 5, were found dead by
their mother in her trailer home. Allan Schoenborn (40), their father,
was arrested April 16 in connection with the murders after local
residents discovered him hiding in rugged bush.
(Reuters, 4/16/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Egypt thousands of
demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched
buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with
tear gas in a northern industrial town as part of a nationwide strike.
Three people were killed and more than 150 injured over two days of
unrest in Mahalla, the culmination of more than a year of strikes by
workers at a giant state-run textile factory.
(AP, 4/7/08)(AP, 4/4/09)
2008 Apr 6, Iraqi troops backed by
US forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City in clashes
that killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 despite a cease-fire
between the government and the militia. 3 US service members were
killed and dozens wounded in rocket attacks on the fortified Green
Zone. 2 more US soldiers died in roadside bombings.
(AP, 4/6/08)(AP, 4/7/08)(SFC, 4/7/08, p.A17)
2008 Apr 6, In Japan the Group of
Eight (G8) rich nations vowed to step up cooperation with emerging
donors such as China and India and said they remained committed to a
goal to double their own aid to Africa by 2010.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, In southern Mexico a
truck carrying Central American migrants in a hidden compartment
plunged into a reservoir, killing at least eight people. Most of the
migrants were believed to be from Guatemala.
(AP, 4/7/08)
2008 Apr 6, Montenegrins voted in
the tiny Balkan state's first presidential election since it split from
Serbia two years ago. President Filip Vujanovic won re-election by a
landslide, cementing Montenegro's westward economic and political
course since breaking away from Serbia two years ago.
(AP, 4/6/08)(AP, 4/7/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Nigeria
unidentified gunmen kidnapped an 11-year-old boy in Port Harcourt,
wounding his mother and killing the family's police guard and their
driver.
(AFP, 4/7/08)
2008 Apr 6, A Palestinian boy (8)
was killed by shrapnel in an explosion in the central Gaza Strip. The
source of the shrapnel was not identified.
(SFC, 4/7/08, p.A3)
2008 Apr 6, In Russia President
George W. Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last
face-to-face meeting as heads of state with warm words for each other
but no solution to their row over missile defense.
(Reuters, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Somalia 4 people
were killed in Mogadishu in separate attacks overnight, as violence
raged in the shattered east African nation.
(AFP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, Angry Sudanese border
guards killed one civilian and wounded three others in a market after
opening fire indiscriminately in Darfur's political capital.
(AFP, 4/7/08)
2008 Apr 6, A suspected Tamil
Tiger suicide bomber assassinated Jeyaraj Fernandopulle (55), Sri
Lanka's highways minister, as he opened a marathon in an attack that
also killed 13 others and wounded 100.
(AFP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, In Yemen a housing
complex used by foreigners in the capital came under attack, with
explosions shattering windows and prompting residents to evacuate with
suitcases and boxes.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 6, Zimbabwe’s state
Sunday Mail newspaper reported that President Robert Mugabe's ruling
party demanded a vote recount and a further delay in the release of
presidential election results, prompting outrage from the opposition
party. Several foreigners, including New York Times correspondent Barry
Bearak, remained in custody after being charged with "illegally
observing an election without official accreditation."
(AP, 4/6/08)
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.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, Andrew Cuomo, NY
state’s attorney general, filed a civil suit against J. Ezra Merkin, a
New York philanthropic leader and former chairman of GMAC, on
allegations that he betrayed hundreds of investors by repeatedly lying
to them about how he invested their money. Merkin had funneled $2.4
billion from universities and nonprofit organizations into the firm of
Bernard Madoff, now in jail for running a multibillion dollar Ponzi
scheme.
(WSJ, 4/7/09, p.A1)
2009 Apr 6, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel made an unannounced visit to northern Afghanistan to meet
with her country's troops and view rebuilding efforts. She pressed
President Karzai to review carefully a new law that critics say
legalizes marital rape. In southern Afghanistan an insurgent rocket
attack hit the Netherlands' main military base, killing one Dutch
soldier and wounding 5 of his colleagues and 2 Afghan soldiers.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Australia a
motorcycle gang leader surrendered to police and became the sixth biker
charged in connection with a brawl that left a rival bleeding to death
before shocked travelers at Australia's busiest airport.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, Bangladesh police
detained Faisal Mustafa, the head of a British-based charity that
funded an Islamic school in southern Bangladesh, where authorities on
March 24 seized weapons and explosives.
(AP, 4/6/09)(SFC, 4/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Apr 6, Belgium began World
Court proceedings against Senegal in an effort to bring former Chad
President Hissene Habre on trial for alleged widespread human rights
abuses during his eight-year reign. A Chadian commission of inquiry has
concluded that Habre's regime killed at least 3,780 political
opponents, but added that the figure likely represents only 10 percent
of his victims.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, China announced it
will make improved health care services available to all its citizens
by 2020, taking aim at a system long derided as creaking and inadequate.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, Egyptian police were
out in force to deal with a nationwide protest called by pro-democracy
groups, arresting Islamists and seeking to contain small demonstrations
in the capital, Cairo.
(AFP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In India 2 bombs
ripped through crowded markets in the restive northeast, killing at
least seven people and wounding 60 others. A grenade attack left two
police officers injured. Authorities suspected the separatist United
Liberation Front of Asom was behind the attacks.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, An Indonesian military
plane carrying 24 people crashed into an airport hangar during heavy
rains and burst into flames, killing everyone on board.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Iraq a series bombs
rocked Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing 37 people and wounding
more than 100 in a dramatic escalation of violence.
(AP, 4/6/09)(AP, 4/7/09)
2009 Apr 6, In central Italy a
magnitude 6.3 earthquake knocked down whole blocks of buildings as
residents slept, killing 294 people in L'Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo
region, which was near the epicenter. It was the country's deadliest
quake in nearly three decades. Tens of thousands were homeless and
1,500 were injured. 8 students were killed when their dorm
collapsed in L'Aquila. Investigations into shoddy construction
soon followed.
(AFP, 4/6/09)(AP, 4/6/09)(AP, 4/9/09)(Econ, 4/18/09,
p.28)(AP, 10/19/09)
2009 Apr 6, Japan’s Finance
Minister Kaoru Yosano said PM Taro Aso has ordered a $100 billion
stimulus plan to boost the national economy. PM Aso and Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez agreed to deepen ties in energy, investment and
trade, with Japanese companies ready to participate in gas and crude
production in the Latin American country.
(WSJ, 4/7/09, p.A8)(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Kenya justice
minister Martha Karua resigned in protest of Pres. Kibaki’s decision to
appoint judges without consulting her.
(Econ, 4/25/09, p.53)
2009 Apr 6, Somali pirates seized
the Taiwanese ship Win Far 161 with 29 crew onboard near an island in
the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. A 32,000-ton British-owned bulk
carrier, the Malaspina Castle, was also hijacked in the Gulf of Aden.
Pirates soon began using the vessel as a base for attacking other
commercial ships. The Win Far 161 was released on Feb 11, 2010,
following the payment of a ransom.
(AP, 4/6/09)(AP, 8/27/09)(AP, 2/11/10)
2009 Apr 6, In South Africa
prosecutors dropped corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, saying the
case had been manipulated for political reasons and clearing the way
for him to become the next president without the looming threat of a
trial.
(Reuters, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Turkey Pres. Obama,
making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared that
the United States "is not and will never be at war with Islam."
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 6, In Zambia western
nations and lending agencies meeting in Lusaka agreed a financing
package of more than $1 billion to improve infrastructure in southern
and central Africa at an investment conference meant to expand
transport links and trade. Britain said it would separately provide 100
million pounds ($149.2 million) to transform the region's
infrastructure to increase trade and mitigate the effects of the global
financial crisis. New projects will link businesses in 8 African
countries: Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi,
Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa.
(AP, 4/6/09)
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