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April the 6th
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2005 |
Prince Rainier the third of Monaco died at the age of 82. |
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1979 |
The restricted traffic area in Athens is instituted in an effort to fight traffic jams and pollution. |
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1974 |
Music group, ABBA, win the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with their song : Waterloo. |
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1968 |
Racial related riots erupted in many US towns, following the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. |
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1917 |
The United States declared war on Germany. |
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1909 |
The north pole was reached for the first time by an expedition led by American explorer, Robert Edwin Peary. |
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1896 |
Opening of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. The games had been banned 1500 years before by the Roman emperor, Theodosius the first. |
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1866 |
American outlaw, Butch Cassidy, was born in Utah. He was one of the most notorious train and bank robbers of the old west era. |
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1590 |
Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster of Queen Elizabeth I of England and one of her closest confidants, died in London, England. He was 60 years old at the time. |
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1483 |
Italian renaissance painter and architect, Raphael, was born in Urbino, Italy. |
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648 |
Oldest solar eclipse on historic record. |
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