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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48254)	4/6/2005 2:17:44 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Today in history-April 6: 1830: American prophet Joseph Smith, who provided the theological foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Mormon denominations, claimed that the church that he organized on this day, at Fayette, New York, restored the ancient, primitive Christian religion. The converts whom it attracted during the next decade followed him from New York to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. 1909: American explorer Robert Edwin Peary led the first expedition to the North Pole. 1868: The Japanese emperor Meiji issued the Charter Oath, which served to modernize the country during the Meiji Restoration. 1862: Union troops clashed with Confederates in southwestern Tennessee at the Battle of Shiloh, the second great engagement of the American Civil War. 1348: The woman said to be Laura, the beloved muse of the Italian poet Petrarch, died. 1199: Mortally wounded in battle, Richard I (Richard the Lion-Heart) died at Châlus, in the duchy of Aquitaine