6 April

1896 - Orders aimed at strengthening the internal organization and the financial capacity of the Katipunan, the secret revolutionary organization aimed at liberating the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule, are issued by the Supreme Assembly and Supreme Council; during the same meeting, Katipunan (Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan or KKK) founder and Supremo Andres Bonifacio reminds all members to strictly follow said orders as the council also announces the immediate expulsion of all erring Katipunan members.

1917 - The United States enters the First World War as it declares war against Germany; WW I, the deadliest and most destructive war the world will see until WW II, will be an international conflict fought by the Allied powers consisting of France, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and the US against the Central powers composed of Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary.

1994- The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash near the Rwandan capital, Kigali as they were on their way back following a meeting in Tanzania among leaders of east and central Africa, with some reports saying the president's plane was shot down; The deaths of Rwanda's Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundi's Cyprian Ntayamira who are both Hutus will lead to greater ethnic violence particularly in Rwanda where at least 8000,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus will be massacred by the middle of the year.

1998 - South Africa's Gen. Georg Meiring resigns as head of the army when accusations of conspiracy arose concerning a report he provided President Nelson Mandela; the report was supposedly a hoax that falsely named a number of various party leaders of the ruling Africa National Congress (ANC), including Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, as conspirators in a planned coup to overthrow the Mandela government.