Template:On this day/April 6

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

April 6:

• 1682 – Presidio Santa María de Galve: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claimed Louisiana for France.
• 1908 – Striking streetcar operators seized a streetcar, causing the first of many service disruptions during the strike.
• 1943 – Philip D. Beall, Sr. was made president of the Florida Senate.
• 2005 – Omar Barnes was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his cousin Dean Perry, Jr. in Bay Bluffs Park.