Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 6

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 * 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay in Southern Africa, establishing a settlement that later became known as Cape Town.
 * 1712 – A group of 23 slaves in New York City revolted, setting fire to a building, but were soon recaptured.
 * 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: British forces captured the French frigate Niémen in the Bay of Biscay.
 * 1812 – Peninsular War: After a three-week siege, the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, captured Badajoz, Spain, and forced the surrender of the French garrison.
 * 1830 – Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
 * 1941 – World War II: German forces invaded Greece.
 * 1941 – World War II: The Luftwaffe began Operation Retribution, bombing the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade in retaliation for a coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.
 * 1945 – Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.
 * 1970 – Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
 * 2004 – Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas became the first European head of state to be removed from office by impeachment.
 * 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani (pictured) was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
 * 2009 – An earthquake measuring 6.3 Mw struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless.
 * 2010 – Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
 * 2012 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.


 * Born/died: | Basil of Trebizond |d|1340| Raphael |d|1520| Henry Barrowe |d|1593| Leonora Baroni |d|1670|  Philip Henry Gosse |b|1810| Nadar |b|1820| René Lalique |b|1860| Jeanne Hébuterne |b|1898| Anita Pallenberg |b|1942| Han Sorya |d|1976|  Teigan Van Roosmalen  |b|1991| Julie Ertz |b|1992|Tammy Wynette  |d|1998| Anita Borg |d|2003