Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 2005President of Iraq from 2006 to 2014
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 2004Lithuanian politician; President from 2003 until impeached in 2004
The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 1994Mass murder campaign in Rwanda
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d’état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 1985Sudanese president and military officer (1931–2009)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election📜 POLITICS🌍 CANADA🗓️ April 6, 1968Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
The Finno-Soviet Treaty is signed in Moscow.📜 POLICIES🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ April 6, 19481948 treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union
U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 6, 1841President of the United States from 1841 to 1845
The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ April 6, 1800Russian and Ottoman agreement creating the Septinsular Republic