04-06-2005, 03:54 AM
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1652 ~ Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually developed into Cape Town.
1804 ~ The first scientifically recorded meteor landed in Possil, in north Glasgow, Scotland.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1890 ~ Birthday of Anthony Fokker, Dutch Aircraft Designer.
1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, winner 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1930 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Author.
1994 ~ The Rwandan Genocide began when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down.
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