April 6 in history: • 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck landed at Table Bay in southern Africa, establishing a settlement that later became known as Cape Town. → go there • 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture near Block Island. → go there • 1926 – Varney Air Lines made its first commercial flight (flight covers pictured), later forming the basis of United Airlines. → go there • 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq. → go there • 2011 – Mexican drug war: Authorities discovered 59 bodies in clandestine mass graves linked to earlier bus hijackings in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. → go there Died 1670: Leonora Baroni Wiki link Born 1826: Gustave Moreau Wiki link Born 1951: Bert Blyleven Wiki link Born 1991: Teigan Van Roosmalen Wiki link Pictured: Varney Air Lines first flight covers.