Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 6

648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'etat.
1832 - The Black Hawk War begins.
1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
1862 - American Civil War: In Tennessee. the Battle of Shiloh begins.
1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
1896 - Opening of the first modern Olympic Games.
1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wikiquote).
1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
1941 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins.
1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
1994 - The genocide in Rwanda officially begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.