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Events from History on April 06

1955 : "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1997 : "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1995 : "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
1975 : "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs
1975 : "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1984 : 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1986 : 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1906 : 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1931 : 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1909 : 1st credit union forms in US
1925 : 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1869 : 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1976 : 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1931 : 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1993 : 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1984 : 1st time 11 people in space
1930 : 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1789 : 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1974 : 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1987 : 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1924 : 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1934 : 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1992 : 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51
1968 : 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1980 : 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1516 : A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1992 : agents into buying mail-order child pornography
1987 : Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped
1996 : Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated
1893 : Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1936 : ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1991 : Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month
1985 : Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1865 : Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1862 : Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1941 : Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1988 : Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1868 : Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1992 : Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1943 : British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1941 : British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1943 : British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1975 : Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1991 : by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
1652 : Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in S Africa, established
1983 : Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
1994 : Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1886 : City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1945 : Coevorden freed from nazis
1982 : Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1841 : Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1886 : Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1727 : Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1724 : Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1964 : Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
1972 : Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1912 : Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1757 : English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1815 : English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1975 : Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1106 : Fire in Venice
1968 : Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
1974 : Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1993 : Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
1991 : Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1664 : France & Saksen sign alliance
1672 : France declares war on Netherlands
1920 : French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
1890 : French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1866 : G.A.R. forms
1903 : General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1889 : George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1941 : German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1916 : German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1849 : Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le ProphŠte," premieres in Paris
1980 : Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1939 : Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1968 : Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1935 : H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1973 : Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1634 : Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Cura‡ao"
1968 : HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
1973 : Indies troops invade Sikkim
1965 : Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
1941 : Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1327 : Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1924 : Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1900 : James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 : Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1944 : Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1848 : Jews of Prussia granted equality
1950 : John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
1652 : John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
1830 : Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1977 : Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1663 : King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1994 : Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
1943 : Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1945 : Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1992 : Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1966 : Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1893 : Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1909 : North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1957 : NYC ends trolley car service
1989 : Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
1992 : Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
1994 : Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1722 : Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1973 : Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
1956 : Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1980 : Post It Notes, introduced
1967 : Premier Pompidou forms new French government
1997 : Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
1362 : Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1994 : Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1979 : Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1992 : Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1865 : Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off
1712 : Slave revolt in NY
1986 : Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1883 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
1991 : Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1985 : Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1987 : Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1938 : Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1987 : to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
1936 : Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1954 : TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1939 : US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1917 : US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1973 : US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter & Saturn
1945 : US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1954 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1859 : US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1992 : US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal
1957 : USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1924 : V”lkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1992 : Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1973 : Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1955 : Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1981 : Yugoslav govt sends troops to Kosovo

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