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• ...that, 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt (pictured), a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
• ...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
• ...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
• ...that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
• ...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
• ...that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?

• Following the announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured), the Royal Navy personnel accused of trespassing into Iranian waters return to the UK after a two-week detention.
• TGV POS trainset number 4402 sets a new world speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) during test runs conducted in Champagne, France.
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the parliament and calls for an early parliamentary election, a move denounced by the parliament as unconstitutional.
• A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands, killing at least 20, destroying around 900 homes and leaving thousands homeless.
• Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia and becomes the first person to win seven golds at a World Championships; seven other world records are also broken.

April 6: Good Friday in Christianity (2007); Tartan Day

• 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck (pictured) established the first permanent European settlement in sub-Saharan Africa on what eventually became known as Cape Town.
• 1782 - Rama I succeeded King Taksin of Thailand, founding the Chakri Dynasty.
• 1830 - Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
• 1896 - The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.

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