APRIL 6 — ERICH MÜHSAM
German anarchist poet, murdered by the Nazis.
APRIL 6 festivals:
* France: FÊTE OF THE LITTLE BOATS — A children’s festival involving little pine boats with lighted candles.
* GO FOR BROKE DAY.
ALSO ON APRIL 6 THROUGH HISTORY…
1528 — German engraver Albrecht Dürer dies.
1712 — New York City slave revolt begins.
1812 — Anarcho-socialist theorist Alexander Herzen born, Moscow, Russia.
1820 — Photographer, caricaturist Nadar (Félix Tournachon), born, Paris, France.
1825 — Phantasist painter Gustave Moreau born.
1830 — Angelic tablet finder Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church.
1832 — Black Hawk War begins.
1866 — American muckraker Lincoln Steffens born, San Francisco, California.
1878 — German anarchist poet Erich Mühsam born, Berlin, Germany.
1896 — First modern Olympics, Athens, Greece.