April 06

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1199	King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.	Half-Handed Cloud	Even the Sparrow'd Be Arrowed	We Haven't Just Been Told, We Have Been Loved
2	1327	The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.	Ray Peterson	Tell Laura I Love Her	Tell Laura I Love Her
3	1652	At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town .	The Cranberries	Cape Town	Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
4	1808	John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, eventually leading him to become America's first Millionaire.	Suicide	Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne	Unconditionally Guaranteed
5	1869	Celluloid is patented.	The Kinks	Celluloid Heroes	Everybody's in Show-Biz
6	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.	The Spinners	They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)	Pick of the Litter
7	1930	Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." beginning the Salt Satyagraha.	Chocolate USA	Playing in the Mud	Smoke Machine

(Historical facts about April 06 are from Wikipedia.)