6th April anniversaries

  • Birth
    • 1909
    • Germany
    • "Birth of Hermann Lang, German racing driver"
  • event
    • 1580
    • Great Britain
    • "Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned by Shakespeare – dozens of ships sunk and a tsunami hit Calais "
    • 1609
    • Great Britain
    • English explorer Henry Hudson set off from Amsterdam in search of the North-West Passage
    • 1808
    • United States
    • The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor .
    • 1814
    • France
    • Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
    • 1896
    • Greece
    • First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
    • 1909
    • United States
    • American explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole
    • 1938
    • United States
    • "Teflon (also known as PTFE or Polytetrafluoroethylene) was invented by Dr Roy Plunkett at DuPont research laboratories, New Jersey, USA."
    • 1944
    • Great Britain
    • PAYE income tax begins
    • 1978
    • United States
    • US President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that extended the mandatory retirement age for most workers from 65 to 70.
    • 1994
    • Rwanda
    • "A plane carrying Rwandan president JuvĂ©nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down by extremists. This event marked the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, and civil war broke out the following day"
  • Death
    • 1199
    • Great Britain
    • Richard I dies having spent most of his reign abroad – succeeded by his brother John (to 1216)
    • 1857
    • France
    • "Death of Francis Richeux, guillotined in Paris. The event was witnessed by Leo Tolstoy and had a profound effect on him." more
    • 1907
    • Great Britain
    • "Death of Thomas Beecham. Marketer of patent medicine, selling pills under the slogan 'Worth a guinea a box'. Grandfather of SAir Thoimas Beecham, the conductor."
    • 1998
    • United States
    • "Death of Tammy Wynette, American country singer ."
    • 1998
    • United States
    • "Death of Wendy O. Williams, American punk rock singer (‘The Plasmatics’)."

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