On this day, April 6 …
2019: “Woke” culture warning: Former President Barack Obama says, at an Obama Foundation event in Berlin, Germany, that he is worried that progressives are creating a “circular firing squad” as prospective Democratic presidential candidates race to the left on a number of hot topic issues ahead of the 2020 election.
Also on this day:
- 1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y.
- 1896: The first modern Olympic games formally opens in Athens, Greece.
- 1909: American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits become the first men to reach the North Pole.
- 1917: The United States enters World War I as the House joins the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that is then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
- 1954: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., responding to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s broadside against him on “See It Now,” says in remarks filmed for the program that…