4th April 2006 : The Iraq tribunal announce criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from a 1980s crackdown against Kurds
4th April 2006 : Women have voted for the first time in this year's Kuwaiti council by-elections, and female candidates were among the eight that were running for the seat in the Salmiya district. 60% of eligible voters are women, and voting is in segregated polling booths (a condition that was demanded by Islamist and tribal leaders). Women were granted equal political rights in 2005, and will be able to vote in 2007's legislative polls.
4th April 2008 : A letter written by Abraham Lincoln is sold at auction for $3.4 million in New York. The 1864 reply to a petition by 195 children asking for the freedom of "all the slave children in this country" has beaten the national record of $3.1 million. Sotheby's have said that it was bought by an American collector by telephone. The letter asks to "Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it."' The letter was dated April 5th, 1864.
**4th April 2006 Kuwait Women vote for first time in Kuwait
** Women have voted for the first time in this year's Kuwaiti council by-elections, and female candidates were among the eight that were running for the seat in the Salmiya district. 60% of eligible voters are women, and voting is in segregated polling booths (a condition that was demanded by Islamist and tribal leaders). Women were granted equal political rights in 2005, and will be able to vote in 2007's legislative polls.
**4th April Jinnah MissionTalks with the Cabinet Mission in 1946, before the plan was issued: **
The Delegation invited Mr. Jinnah in the first place to give them his reasons why he thought it better for the future of India that India should have a Pakistan.
Mr. Jinnah said that throughout her history from the days of Chandra Gupta there had never been any Government of India in the sense of a single Government. The Muslim Moghul Empire had had the largest control but even in those days the Mahrattas and the Rajputs were not under Muslim rule. When the British came they gradually established their rule in a large part of India but, even then, India was only one-third united. The big States and sovereign States were constitutionally and legally already Pakistans.
The only limitation of this is the Paramount Power of the Crown. The effect of Paramountcy is that the Paramount Power in the last resort maintains internal order in the States but as a counterpart of this has a duty to prevent gross maladministration. Nowadays we talk of British India and say India is one. Mr. Jinnah considered that that could not stand examination for a moment. India is really many and is held by the British as one.
Mr. Jinnah said that he agreed that areas like Burdwan, if they were not essential to the economic life, could go into Pakistan?Hindustan]. In reply to a suggestion that Calcutta should be a free port through which goods would enter both countries free of duty and administered by a condominium, Mr. Jinnah asked what examples of this there were in the world. The cases of Danzig, Shanghai and Fiume were mentioned but Mr. Jinnah pointed out that all these had been imposed and maintained by force. What he wanted was a nucleus Muslim territory surrounded by sufficient additional territory to make it economically viable.
April 4: Independence Day in Senegal (1960); Children's Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong
1660 – Charles II of England issued the Declaration of Breda, describing his conditions for the Restoration of the crown of England.
1841 – William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die in office, 32 days into his term, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of presidential succession that were left unanswered by the U.S. Constitution.
1969 – Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implanted the first total artificial heart.
1975 – Bill Gates (pictured) and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
1979 – Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed.
2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty, agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long Angolan Civil War.
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