• Today is Sunday, April 6, the 96th day of 2014. There are 269 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 6, 1994, the Hutu president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana (zhoo-vay-NAHL' hahb-yah-ree-MAH'-nuh), was killed along with the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, when their plane was apparently shot down near the Rwandan capital of Kigali; what followed was a 100-day genocide in Rwanda during which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were killed by Hutu extremists.
• On this date:
• In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y.
• In 1864, Louisiana opened a convention in New Orleans to draft a new state constitution, one that called for the abolition of slavery.
• In 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece.
• In 1909, American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.
• In 1917, Congress approved a declaration of war against Germany.
• In 1943, "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was first published by Reynal & Hitchcock of New York.
• In 1954, a month after being criticized by newsman Edward R. Murrow on CBS' "See It Now," Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., given the chance to respond on the program, charged that Murrow had, in the past, "engaged in propaganda for Communist causes."
• In 1963, the United States signed an agreement to sell the Polaris missile system to Britain.
• In 1974, Swedish pop group ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Brighton, England, with a performance of the song "Waterloo."
• In 1988, Tirza Porat, a 15-year-old Israeli girl, was killed in a West Bank melee. (Although Arabs were initially blamed, the army concluded Tirza had been accidentally shot by a Jewish settler.)
• In 1994, Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun announced his retirement af

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