Today In History For April 6th
Today is Wednesday, April 6, the 96th day of 2011. There are 269 days left in the year.
On April 6, 1909, American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.
In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y.
In 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece.
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