On April 6
On April 6, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Nigeria becomes Africa's largest economy (2014).
On this day
On 6 April 2014 Nigeria announced the results of a long-overdue 'rebasing' of its gross domestic product, updating the base year for its national accounts from 1990 for the first time in decades.
Also this week in history (Apr 3 – Apr 9)
Over roughly 100 days from 7 April 1994, members of Rwanda's Hutu-led government, army and allied militias such as the Interahamwe carried out a systematic genocide against the Tutsi minority, also killing moderate Hutu and Twa.
On 9 April 1288, the forces of Dai Viet, commanded by the Tran-dynasty grand commander Tran Hung Dao, annihilated the invading Yuan-Mongol fleet on the estuary of the Bach Dang River in present-day Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.
On Easter Sunday, 5 April 1722, the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to sight and land on Rapa Nui, which he named Paasch-Eyland (Easter Island) for the day of its discovery.
The Marshall Plan, formally the European Recovery Program, was the principal U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after World War II. Proposed by Secretary of State George C.
On 4 April 1949 twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C., establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.