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6 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1648 Construction of the Red Fort was completed, supervised by Shah Jahan. Unlike other Mughal forts, the Red Fort's boundary walls are asymmetrical to contain the older Salimgarh Fort.
- 1930 After 24 days, Dandi March, which was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi, ended. It passed through 4 districts and 48 villages, from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi.
- 1966 Mihir Sen became the first Indian on record to swim across the Palk Straits.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1520 Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, died in Rome, Italy.
- 1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
- 1909 Robert Peary allegedly becomes the first person to reach the North Pole.
- 1917 US joined its allies—Britain, France, and Russia—to fight in World War I.
- 1992 Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, died. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A Heinlein and Arthur C Clarke.
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