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This is a list of selected April 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Rama I
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Jan van Riebeeck
Arthur Wellesley, the Earl of Wellington
Security forces in Cairo beating protesters in 2008
Demonstrators in Chișinău, Moldova
Earthquake damage in L'Aquila
American WWI Uncle Sam recruiting poster (1917)
Cover of the official report for the 1896 Olympics
Juvénal Habyarimana
Jalal Talabani

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
402 – Gothic Wars: A Roman army led by Stilicho turned back an attempted Gothic invasion of Italy led by Alaric I.	tone and sourcing issues
1320 – The Declaration of Arbroath, a declaration of Scottish independence, was adopted.	refimprove
1580 – An estimated M_L5.3–5.9 earthquake struck the Strait of Dover, one of the largest earthquakes in the recorded history of England, Flanders and Northern France.	refimprove section
1782 – Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Siam, founding the Chakri Dynasty.	refimprove
1793 – French Revolution: The Committee of Public Safety was established, and would become the de facto executive government during the forthcoming Reign of Terror.	unreferenced section
1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War, was founded in Decatur, Illinois.	refimprove section
1868 – The Charter Oath, which stated the main aims and methods of action of the new Meiji era of Japan, was promulgated in Kyoto.	Could not verify date from source cited
1886 – Vancouver, one of British Columbia's youngest cities, was incorporated.	outdated
1893 – The Salt Lake Temple, the largest of more than 140 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was dedicated in Salt Lake City.	unreferenced section
1896 – The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.	Could not verify date from source cited
1909 – American explorer Robert Peary allegedly became the first person to reach the North Pole; his claim was accepted for many years, although modern research has determined that he most likely did not.	lots of CN tags, refimprove/unreferenced sections
1917 – World War I: After more than two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to maintain neutrality, the United States declared war on Germany.	unreferenced section
1947 – The first Tony Awards, recognizing achievement in American theatre, were handed out at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.	citation needed tagged section
1979 – The first of the 1979 Nepalese student protests broke out, which forced the monarchy to concede to holding a referendum on the possibility of a multiparty system in the country.	lots of CN tags (4) relative to length
Arvid Horn \|b\|1664\|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay in Southern Africa, establishing a settlement that later became known as Cape Town.
1712 – A group of 23 slaves in New York City revolted, setting fire to a building, but were soon recaptured.
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: British forces captured the French frigate Niémen in the Bay of Biscay.
1812 – Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, captured Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison.
1830 – Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
1941 – World War II: German forces invaded Greece.
1941 – World War II: The Luftwaffe began Operation Retribution, bombing the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade in retaliation for a coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.
1945 – Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.
1970 – Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
2004 – Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas became the first European head of state to be removed from office by impeachment.
2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani (pictured) was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
2009 – An earthquake measuring 6.3 M_w struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless.
2010 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
2012 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.

Born/died: | Basil of Trebizond |d|1340| Raphael |d|1520| Henry Barrowe |d|1593| Leonora Baroni |d|1670| Philip Henry Gosse |b|1810| Nadar |b|1820| René Lalique |b|1860| Jeanne Hébuterne |b|1898| Anita Pallenberg |b|1942| Han Sorya |d|1976| Teigan Van Roosmalen |b|1991| Julie Ertz |b|1992|Tammy Wynette |d|1998| Anita Borg |d|2003

Notes

Rwandan Genocide appears on April 9, so Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira should not appear in the same year

April 6: Tartan Day

ABBA

1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island.
1808 – John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
1974 – ABBA (pictured) won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".
1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
2008 – Egyptian workers staged an illegal general strike, two days before key municipal elections.
2009 – Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.

James Mill (b. 1773)
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (b. 1892)
Rose O'Neill (d. 1944)
Ng Ser Miang (b. 1949)

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