April 7
April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years ). There are 268 days remaining.
Events
529 - first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence ) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague .
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu
1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies .
1655 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII
1795 - France adopts the metre as the unit of length
1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain
1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition : The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River .
1805 - First public performance of Beethoven 's third symphony (Eroica).
1827 - John Walker (inventor) , an English chemist , invents the friction match .
1831 - Emperor Pedro I of Brazil abdicates in favor of his son, Pedro II
1856 - Foundation of Nelson College , Nelson, New Zealand
1862 - American Civil War : Battle of Shiloh ends - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee .
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples .
1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco .
1908 - Herbert Henry Asquith takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1922 - Teapot Dome scandal : United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming .
1927 - First long distance public television broadcast (Washington, DC to New York City ; image was of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).
1934 - The U.S. Congress passes the Jones-Connally Farm-Relief Act .
1939 - World War II : Italy invades Albania .
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp .
1943 - First synthesis of LSD , lysergic acid diethylamide, by Albert Hoffman
1945 - World War II : The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while in-route to a suicide mission.
1945 - Kantaro Suzuki becomes the 42nd Prime Minister of Japan
1946 - Syria's independence from Vichy France is officially recognised
1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations .
1952 - The manga Astro Boy Shōnen .
1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General .
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory " speech during a news conference.
1955 - Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco .
1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
1964 - IBM announces the System/360
1967 - Six-Day War : Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s .
1968 - Formula One racer Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula 2 race in Hockenheim, Germany .
1969 - The Internet 's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light
1977 - Toronto Blue Jays play their first-ever game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox
1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4 , 1979 .
1983 - During STS-6 , astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway after a fire. 42 sailors die.
1990 - Iran Contra Affair : John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal but the convictions were later reversed after an appeal.
1993 - Attack submarine ex-Queenfish completes being recycled
1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali , Rwanda .
1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup .
1999 - Kosovo War : Kosovo 's main border crossings are closed by Serbian forces to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
2000 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled
2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
2001 - An M-17 helicopter crashes into mountain in south of Hanoi, Vietnam killing 16.
2003 - US troops capture Baghdad , Saddam Hussein 's regime falls two days later
Births
1506 - Saint Francis Xavier , founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552 )
1652 - Pope Clement XII , né Lorenzo Corsini (d. 1740 )
1727 - Michel Adanson , French botanist
1770 - William Wordsworth , English poet (d. 1850 )
1772 - Charles Fourier , French philosopher and utopian socialist. (d. 1837 )
1803 - James Curtiss , mayor of Chicago (d. 1859 )
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg , founder of Kellogg Company .
1867 - Holger Pedersen , Danish linguist (d. 1953 )
1870 - Gustav Landauer , German Jewish anarchist and revolutionary
1873 - John McGraw , baseball coach, manager, player, Hall of Famer (d. 1934 )
1882 - Armando Borghi , Italian anarchism propagandist (d. 1968
1883 - Gino Severini , Italian painter (d. 1966
1889 - Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet (d. 1957 )
1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas , conservationist, writer (d. 1998 )
1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen , in Denmark, inventor of Lego
1893 - Allen Dulles , Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969 )
1897 - Walter Winchell , broadcaster, journalist (d. 1972 )
1899 - Robert Casadesus , French pianist (d. 1972 )
1908 - Percy Faith , composer, musician (d. 1976 )
1915 - Billie Holiday , American jazz and Blues singer (d. 1959 )
1915 - Henry Kuttner , science fiction writer (d. 1958 )
1917 - R.G. Armstrong , American actor
1918 - Bobby Doerr , baseball player, Hall of Famer
1919 – Jackie Rollin , French actress (d. 1998 )
1919 – Edoardo Mangiarotti , fencer, multiple Olympic champion between 1936 and 1960
1920 - Ravi Shankar , master of the Sitar was born in Bengal ,India .
1922 - Mongo Santamaria , Latin jazz musician (d. 2003 )
1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian writer
1927 - Babatunde Olatunji , Nigerian musician (2003 )
1928 - James Garner , actor
1928 - Alan J. Pakula , producer, director (d. 1998 )
1929 - Bob Denard , French mercenary
1930 - Andrew Sachs , British actor
1933 - Wayne Rogers , American actor
1934 - Ian Richardson , British actor
1935 - Bobby Bare , American country musician
1935 - Hodding Carter , American political operative
1938 - Freddie Hubbard , jazz trumpeter
1938 - Jerry Brown , American politician
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola , American film director
1939 - Sir David Frost , broadcaster, television host
1941 – Daniel Toscan du Plantier , French film producer
1944 - Gerhard Schröder , German Bundeskanzler 1998
1944 - Julia Phillips , American film producer, writer (d. 2002 )
1945 – Joël Robuchon , celebrated French chef
1946 - Colette Besson , French runner
1947 - Michelle Torr , singer
1949 - John Oates , musician (Hall and Oates )
1951 - Janis Ian , singer and songwriter
1951 – Jean-Louis Borloo , French politician
1954 - Jackie Chan , actor
1954 - Tony Dorsett , American football star
1955 - Werner Stocker , actor
1956 - Christopher Darden , O.J. Simpson prosecuter
1961 – Pascal Olmeta , soccer goalkeeper
1962 – Alain Robert , solo urban climber
1962 - Hugh O'Connor , American actor (d. 1995 )
1964 - Russell Crowe , actor
1965 - Bill Bellamy , actor, comedian
1966 - Gary Wilkinson , English snooker player
1971 – Guillaume Depardieu , French actor, son of Gérard Depardieu .
1971 - Felipe de Jesus Cervantes Aguilar , Mexican writer, author of 4.7
1973 - Carole Montillet , Olympic downhill skiing champion
1975 - Heather Burns , American actress
Deaths
858 - Pope Benedict III
1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470 )
1614 - El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist (b. 1541 )
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune , Japanese daimyo (b. 1576 )
1668 - William Davenant , English poet (b. 1606 )
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle , French teacher and educational reformer, canonized saint
1739 - Dick Turpin , highwayman, hanged (b. 1706 )
1761 - Thomas Bayes mathematician (b. 1702 )
1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Dutch philologist and critic
1767 - Franz Sparry , Baroque composer
1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I , Ottoman sultan (b. 1725 )
1823 - Jacques Charles , French chemist (b. 1746 )
1836 - William Godwin , English political writer (b. 1756 )
1850 - William Lisle Bowles , English poet and critic (b. 1762 )
1858 - Anton Diabelli , music publisher, editor and composer (b. 1781 )
1871 - Alexander Lloyd , mayor of Chicago (b. 1805 )
1891 - P. T. Barnum , circus impresario (b. 1810 )
1939 - Joseph Lyons , tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879 )
1943 - Jovan Ducic , Serbian poet
1943 - Alexandre Millerand , president of France
1947 - Henry Ford , automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863 )
1950 - Walter Huston , Academy Award winning actor (b. 1884 )
1955 - Theda Bara , silent film actress (b. 1885 )
1961 - Marian Jordan , actress
1968 - Jimmy Clark , racing driver (b. 1936 )
1981 - Norman Taurog , director
1982 - Pio Turroni , Italian militant anarchist
1982 - Brenda Benet , American actress
1984 - Frank Church , U.S. Senator
1990 – Ronald Evans , NASA astrounaut (b. 1933 )
1994 - Golo Mann , German historian (b. 1909 )
1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana , Prime Minister of Rwanda
1997 - Witto Aloma , Major League Baseball player (b. 1923 )
1997 - Georgi Shonin , cosmonaut (b. 1935 )
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas , preeminent conservationist and environmentalist (b. 1890 )
1998 - Yves Mourousi , French journalist
2001 - David Graf , American actor
2001 - Beatrice Straight , Academy Award -winning actress (b. 1914 )
2002 - John Agar , American actor
2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff , children's book author Babar
2003 - Jutta Hipp , pianist
2003 - Ferdinand Seibt , historian
2004 - Enrico Ameri , Italian singer and journalist
2005 - Bob Kennedy , Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1920 )
Holidays and observances
Araw ng Kagitingan was moved this year from April 9 to April 7 to give the residents a long weekend and help tourism in the Philippines .
World Health Day - April 7th of every year is designated as World Health Day and celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization to emphasize significant issues in public health of worldwide concern. Observed annually since 1948 .
Mozambique - Womens' Day
External links
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