On this day in History - Apr. 7

• 0529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
• 0858 - Pope Benedict III dies.
• 1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1307 - Joan of Acre dies (b. 271). Daughter of Edward I of England.
• 1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
• 1449 - Felix V, the last antipope, abdicated.
• 1498 - King Charles VIII of France dies (b. 1470).
• 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier was born (d. 1552). Founder of the Society of Jesus.
• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. V. biografia de Fernão de Magalhães (em português).
  
• 1534 - José de Anchieta was born. Spanish jesuit and missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians).
• 1539 - Tobias Stimmer was born (d. 1584). Swiss painter and drawer.
• 1541 - Spanish founder of the Jesuits Francis Xavier, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
• 1570 - Luiz Vaz de Camões chega a Cascais a bordo da nau 'Santa Fé'.
• 1613 - Gerhard Douw was born (d. 1675). Dutch painter.
• 1614 - El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist (b. 1541) Greek Spanish Mannerist painter. He was a master of Spanish painting, whose highly individual dramatic and expressionistic style and elongated figures met with the puzzlement of his contemporaries but gained newfound appreciation in the 20th century. He also worked as a sculptor and as an architect.
• 1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune dies (b. 1576). Japanese daimyo.
• 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi was born (d. 1730). French soldier.
• 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was born (d. 1721). English statesman and poet.
• 1648 - Ferdinand van Kessel was born. Flemish painter.
• 1651 - Lennart Torstenson dies (b. 1603). Swedish soldier and engineer.
• 1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1652 - Pope Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini] was born (d. 1740).
• 1655 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII.
• 1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg dies (b. 1595). Spanish mystic.
• 1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet dies (b. 1604). English soldier and politician.
• 1663 - Francis Cooke dies. Mayflower pilgrim.
• 1668 - William Davenant dies (b. 1606). English poet.
• 1717 - Michel Adanson was born (d. 3 Aug 1806). French botanist who devised a natural system of classification and nomenclature of plants, based on all their physical characteristics, with an emphasis on families.
• 1718 - Hugh Blair was born (d. 1800). Scottish preacher and man of letters.
• 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle dies at 67. French priest, theory and saint.
• 1726 - Charles Burney was born. English music historian.
• 1727 - Michel Adanson was born (d. 1806). French botanist.
• 1739 - Dick Turpin dies hanged (b. 1706). English highwayman.
• 1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau dies (b. 1676). Prussian field marshall.
• 1761 - Thomas Bayes dies (b. 1702). English mathematician.
• 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti was born. Italian composer.
• 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis dies born (b. 1685). Dutch philologist and critic.
• 1767 - Franz Sparry dies (b. 1715). Composer.
• 1770 - William Wordsworth was born (d. 1850). English poet.
• 1772 - Charles Fourier was born (d. 1837). French philosopher.
• 1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
• 1780 – William Ellery Channing was born (d. 1842). Unitarian theologian.
  
• 1782 - Taksin dies (b. 1734). King of Thailand.
• 1788 - American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
• 1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I dies (b. 1725). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1789 - Petrus Camper dies (b. 1722). Dutch anatomist.
• 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.
• 1801 - Noël François de Wailly dies (b. 1724). French lexicographer.
• 1803 - Flora Tristan was born (d. 1844). French feminist and socialist philosopher.
• 1803 - James Curtiss was born (d. 1859). Mayor of Chicago.
• 1804 - Toussaint Louverture dies (b. 1743). Haitian Revolutionary.
• 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).
• 1809 - James Glaisher was born (d. 7 Feb 1903). English meteorologist and aeronaut. Between 1862-66, mostly with Henry Tracey Coxwell, he made balloon ascents, many of which were arranged by a committee of the British Association.The object was to carry out scientific observations such as the variation in temperature and humidity of the atmosphere at high elevations.
• 1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze dies (b. 1757). Georgian diplomat and politician.
• 1816 - Christian Konrad Sprengel dies (b. 22 Sep 1750). German botanist and teacher whose studies of sex in plants led him to a general theory of fertilization which, basically, is accepted today.
• 1817 - Francesco Selmi was born (d. 13 Aug 1881). Italian chemist and toxicologist who is considered one of the founders of colloid chemistry.
• 1823 - Jacques Charles dies (b. 1746). French chemist/ Morria Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar Charles (n. 12 Nov 1746). Matemático, físico, e inventor francês que, com Nicolas Robert, foi o primeiro em ascender em um balão de hidrogênio (1783). Em aproximadamente 1787 ele desenvolveu a lei de Charles relativa à expansão térmica dos gases.
• 1823 - Fundação da Sociedad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas - Buenos Aires.
• 1823 - Guillaume Jules Hoüel was born. French mathematicien.
• 1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
• 1829 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
• 1831 - Emperor Pedro I of Brazil abdicates in favor of his son, Pedro II.
• 1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł dies (b. 1775). Polish politician.
• 1836 - William Godwin dies (b. 1756). English political writer.
• 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson was born (d. 1930). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1850 - William Lisle Bowles dies (b. 1762). English poet and critic.
• 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was born (d. 1884). Son of Queen Victoria.
  
• 1856 - Foundation of Nelson College, Nelson, New Zealand.
• 1858 - Anton Diabelli dies (b. 1781). Austrian music publisher, editor and composer.
• 1859 - Jacques Loeb was born (d. 11 Feb 1924). German-born American biologist noted chiefly for his experimental work on artificial parthenogenesis (reproduction without fertilization).
• 1859 - Walter Camp was born (d. 1925). Sports authority known as the "Father of American Football".
• 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg was born (d. 1951). American cereal manufacturer.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• 1866 - (Erik) Ivar Fredholm was born (d. 17 Aug 1927). Swedish mathematician who founded modern integral equation theory.
• 1867 - Johnson C. Smith University was established this day.
• 1867 - Holger Pedersen was born (d. 1953). Dutch linguist.
• 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee (b. 1825), one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, the only one at the federal level.
• 1869 - David Grandison Fairchild was born (d. 6 Aug 1954). American botanist and agricultural explorer who supervised the introduction of many useful plants into the United States.
• 1870 - Gustav Landauer was born (d. 1919). German anarchist and revolutionary.
• 1871 - Alexander Lloyd dies (b. 1805). Mayor of Chicago, IL.
• 1873 - John McGraw was born (d. 1934). Baseball coach, manager, player, Hall of Famer.
• 1883 - Gino Severini was born born in Cortona, Italy (d. 27 Feb 1966). Italian Cubist / futurist painter.
• 1884 - Bronislaw (Kasper) Malinowski was born (d.16 May 1942). Polish-born British anthropologist one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century who is widely recognized as the founder of social anthropology and principally associated with field studies of the peoples of Oceania.
• 1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold dies (b. 16 Feb 1804).German zoologist who studied primarily invertebrates (such as jelly fish, intestinal worms, salamanders and freshwater fish).
• 1886 - Ed Lafitte was born (d. 1971). American baseball player.
• 1889 - Gabriela Mistral [Lucila Godoy Alcayaga] was born (d. 1957). Chilean poet - Nobel Prize 1945.
• 1890 - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas was born (d. 1998). American conservationist and writer.
• 1891 - Victoria Ocampo was born. Argentine writer.
• 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen was born in Denmark (d. 1958). Danish inventor of Lego.
• 1891 - P. T. Barnum dies (b. 1810). American circus impresario.
• 1893 - Allen Dulles was born (d. 1969). Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1893 - Nascia Almada Negreiros em S. Tomé e Príncipe. Escritor e artista plástico português.
• 1894 - Aparece en Buenos Aires el diario socialista "La Vanguardia", fundado Juan B. Justo.
• 1897 - Erich Loewenhardt was born (d. 1918). German flying ace of World War I.
  
• 1897 - Walter Winchell was born (d. 1972). American broadcaster and journalist.
• 1899 - Robert Casadesus was born (d. 1972). French pianist.
• 1900 - Frederic Edwin Church dies (b. 04 May 1826). US Hudson River School painter specialized in Landscapes.
• 1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
• 1903 – Edwin T. Layton was born (d. 1984). American Naval officer.
  
• 1905 - Queenie Leonard was born (d. 2002). American actress.
  
• 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• 1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
• 1908 - Herbert Henry Asquith of The Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• 1908 - Gustavo Lacerda funda no Rio de Janeiro a Associação Brasileira de Imprensa (ABI).
• 1908 - Percy Faith was born (d. 1976). Canadian composer and musician.
• 1909 - Robert Charroux was born (d. 1978). French writer.
• 1911 - Hervé Bazin was born (d. 1996). French writer.
  
• 1911 - Kenneth (Page) Oakley was born (d. 2 Nov 1981). English physical anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist best known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content.
• 1913 - Charles Vanik was born (d. 2007). American politician.
• 1914 - Ralph Flanagan was born (d. 1995). American big band leader.
  
• 1915 - Billie Holiday was born (d. 1959). American jazz and Blues singer.
• 1915 - Henry Kuttner was born (d. 1958). Science fiction writer.
• 1915 - Stanley Adams was born (d. 1977). American actor.
• 1916 - Anthony Caruso was born (d. 2003). American actor.
  
• 1917 - Cuba declara guerra contra a Alemanha.
• 1917 - Panamá declara guerra contra a Alemanha.
• 1917 - R.G. Armstrong was born. American actor.
• 1918 - Bobby Doerr was born. American baseball player, Hall of Famer.
• 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti was born. Italian fencer.
• 1919 - Roger Lemelin was born (d. 1992). Quebec novelist and television writer.
• 1920 - Ravi Shankar was born. Indian musician, a sitar virtuoso and composer who founded the National Orchestra of India and who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of classical Hindustani music.
• 1921 - Diário de Lisboa, Portuguese newspaper, is founded /Foi fundado o jornal Diário de Lisboa.
• 1922 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
• 1922 - Mongo Santamaria was born (d. 2003). Cuban musician.
• 1922 - Nascimento em São Paulo de Dircinha Batista (Dirce Grandino de Oliveira), estrela do cinema brasileiro.
• 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel was born. Austrian writer.
• 1924 - Em Lisboa, os aviadores Brito Pais, Sarmento Beires e Manuel Gouveia iniciam a primeira viagem aérea até Macau.
• 1927 - First long distance public television broadcast (Washington, DC to New York City; image was of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji was born (d. 2003). Nigerian drummer.
• 1928 - Alan J. Pakula was born in The Bronx, New York, USA (d. 19 Nov 1998). Film director. Producer. [Sophie's Choice (1982) (producer and director); The Pelican Brief (1993) (producer and director); The Parallax View (1974) (producer and director) Presumed Innocent (1990) (director), etc. ].
• 1928 - James Garner [James Scott Bumgarner] was born in Norman, Oklahoma. American actor.
• 1928 - James White was born (d. 1999). Northern Irish science fiction writer.
• 1928 - Alexander Bogdanov dies (b. 1873). Russian physician and philosopher.
• 1929 - Bob Denard was born (d. 2007). French mercenary.
• 1930 - Andrew Sachs was born. British actor.
• 1931 - Donald Barthelme was born (d. 1989). American author.
• 1933 - The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the first law meant to discriminate specifically against Jews is passed by the National Socialist regime in Germany.
• 1933 - Prohibition was repealed for beer of 3.2% alcohol by weight or 4% by volume, eight months before the full repeal of Prohibition on December 5, 1933.
• 1933 - Wayne Rogers was born. American actor.
• 1934 - The U.S. Congress passes the Jones-Connally Farm-Relief Act.
• 1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience.
• 1934 - Ian Richardson was born (d. 2007). British actor.
• 1935 - Bobby Bare was born. American musician.
• 1935 – Hodding Carter III was born. American journalist and politician.
• 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changuex was born. French neuroscientist.
• 1938 - LSD is first synthesized.
• 1938 - Freddie Hubbard was born. American jazz trumpeter.
• 1938 - Jerry Brown was born. American politician.
• 1938 - Spencer Dryden was born (d. 2005). American drummer (Jefferson Airplane).
• 1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini made Albania a protectorate of his country, installing Italy's Victor Emmanuel III as king, while Albanian King Zog I went into exile.
• 1939 - Sir David Frost was born. English broadcaster and TV host.
• 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Film director [Apocalypse Now (1979); The Godfather (1972); The Cotton Club (1984); New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life without Zoe"); Dracula (1992); Lost in Translation (2003) (executive producer)... ].
• 1939 - Joseph Lyons dies (b. 1879). Tenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 1940 - Rui Chancerelle de Machete was born. Portuguese politician and teacher.
• 1941 - Nascimento no Rio de Janeiro de Mussum (Antonio Carlos Bernades Gomes), astro do cinema brasileiro.
• 1941 - Gorden Kaye was born. British actor.
• 1941 – James Di Pasquale was born. American composer.
• 1942 - Jeetendra was born. Indian actor.
• 1942 – Nam Gi-nam was born. South Korean director of movies.
• 1943 - Joaquim Agostinho was born. Portuguese cyclist.
• 1943 - Holocaust in Terebovlia, western Ukraine: Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches.
• 1943 - Jovan Ducic dies. Serbian poet.
• 1943 - Alexandre Millerand dies (b. 1859). President of France.
• 1944 - Bill Stoneman was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1944 - Gerhard Schröder was born. German Bundeskanzler (chancellor) since 1998.
• 1944 - Julia Phillips was born (d. 2002). American film producer and writer.
• 1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route on a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
• 1945 - World War II: Visoko was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
• 1945 - Kantaro Suzuki becomes the 42nd Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1945 - Joël Robuchon was born. French chef.
• 1945 - Magnús Þór Jónsson (Megas) was born. Icelandic vocalist, songwriter and writer.
• 1945 - Martin Lewis was born. British newsreader.
• 1945 - Werner Schroeter was born. German film director.
• 1946 - Syria's independence from Vichy France is officially recognised.
• 1946 - Alfredo Cortez dies in Oliveira de Azeméis (b. 29 Jul 1880 ). Portuguese dramatist.
  
• 1946 - Colette Besson was born (d. 2005). French runner.
• 1946 – Stan Winston was born (d. 2008). American special effects, makeup artist and film director.
• 1947 - Henry Ford dies (b. 30 Jul 1863). American inventor, automobile manufacturer and industrialist. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
• 1947 - Eliseo Soriano was born. Phenomenal Philippine religious evangelist.
• 1947 – Florian Schneider was born. German musician (Kraftwerk).
• 1947 - Patricia Bennett was born. American singer (The Chiffons).
• 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
• 1948 - Costa Rica becomes member of Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO.
• 1948 - Carol Douglas was born. American singer.
• 1949 - John Oates was born. Musician ("Hall and Oates").
• 1949 - Mitch Daniels was born. American politician, governor of Indiana.
• 1950 - Walter Huston dies (b. 1884). Academy Award winning actor.
• 1951 - Janis Ian was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1952 - The manga Astro Boy debuts in the monthly magazine Shōnen.
• 1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld is elected United Nations Secretary General.
• 1953 - Assembléia geral da ONU indica o sueco Dag Hammarskjold para o cargo de secretário-geral.
• 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
• 1954 - Jackie Chan [Kong-sang Chan] was born in Hong Kong. Chinese actor.
• 1954 - Tony Dorsett was born. American football star.
• 1955 - Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1955 – Gregg Jarrett was born. American lawyer and television news journalist.
• 1955 - Werner Stocker was born (d. 1993). German actor.
• 1955 - Theda Bara dies (b. 1885). American Silent film actress.
• 1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
• 1956 - Annika Billström was born. Swedish politician.
• 1956 - Charles Carreon was born. American lawyer and author.
• 1956 - Christopher Darden was born. American O.J. Simpson prosecuter.
• 1957 - Kim Kap-su was born. South Korean actor.
• 1960 – James "Buster" Douglas was born. American boxer, Heavyweight Champion of the World.
• 1961 - Pascal Olmeta was born. French footballer.
• 1961 – Thurl Bailey was born. American basketball player.
• 1961 - Marian Jordan dies (b. 16 Nov 1896). American comic actress.
  
• 1961 - Yusef Greiss dies. Egypcian composer.
• 1962 - Alain Robert was born. French rock and urban climber.
• 1962 - Andrew "Andy" Hampsten was born. American cyclist.
• 1962 - Hugh O'Connor was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
• 1963 - Jack Nicklaus's first Masters victory American professional golfer Jack Nicklaus, a dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the '80s and the winner of 73 PGA tour events in his career, won the Masters Tournament at age 23 on this day in 1963.
• 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar was born. Duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty.
• 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
• 1964 – Jace Alexander was born. American television director.
• 1964 - Russell Crowe was born in Wellington, North Island. New Zealand actor.
• 1964 – Steve Graves was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Alison Lapper was born. British artist.
• 1965 - Bill Bellamy was born. American actor and comedian (Fled, Any Given Sunday, Fastlane).
• 1966 - Gary Wilkinson was born. English snooker player.
• 1967 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.
• 1967 - Artemis Gounaki was born in Munich. Greek composer, writer and music producer.
• 1968 - Jim Clark (b. 1936) is killed in an accident during a Formula 2 race in Hockenheim, Germany.
• 1968 - Lançamento da missão espacial russa Luna 14.
• 1968 - Duncan Armstrong was born. Australian swimmer.
• 1968 – Jennifer Lynch was born. American director.
• 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
• 1969 - Jack Black was born in Edmonton, Alberta. Canadian actor.
• 1969 - Ricky Watters was born. American football player.
• 1970 - 42nd Academy Awards - Best Picture: "Midnight Cowboy,"; Best Actor - John Wayne for his role in True Grit; Best Actress - Maggie Smith in Prime of Miss Jean Broiewin.
• 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes was born. Norwegian pianist.
• 1971 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
• 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu was born. French actor, son of Gérard Depardieu.
• 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Rob Steele was born. American author.
• 1971 - Victor Kraatz was born. Canadian figure skater.
• 1973 - Morte do bispo angolano Pompeu de Sá Leão e Seabra.
• 1973 - Brett Tomko was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Carole Montillet was born. French skier.
• 1973 - Ève Salvail was born. Canadian model.
• 1975 – Karin Dreijer Andersson was born. Swedish singer.
• 1975 - Ronde Barber was born. American football player.
• 1975 – Ronnie Belliard was born. American baseball player.
  
• 1975 - Tiki Barber was born. New York Giants Running Back (American Football).
• 1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping.
• 1976 - Former Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party, leaving Prime Minister James Callaghan, who has been in power for just two days, in a minority of one.
• 1976 - Kevin Alejandro was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1977 - Silvana Arias was born. Peruvian actress.
• 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• 1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov was born. Belarusian tennis player.
• 1979 - Adrián Beltré was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1979 – Danny Sandoval was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1979 – Pascal Dupuis was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 – Patrick Crayton was born. American football player.
• 1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
• 1981 - Stijn Stijnen was born. Belgian football player.
• 1981 - Suzann Pettersen was born. Norwegian golfer.
• 1981 - Norman Taurog dies (b. 1899). American film director.
• 1981 - Kit Lambert dies (b. 1935). British record producer and manager (The Who).
• 1982 - Sonjay Dutt was born. Indian American professional wrestler.
• 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle space198walk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
• 1983 - A human skeleton aged 80,000 years old was discovered in Egypt.
• 1983 – Franck Ribéry was born. French football player.
• 1983 - Jon Stead was born. British football player.
• 1984 - Frank Church dies (b. 1924). U.S. Senator from Idaho.
• 1985 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
• 1985 – Carl Schmitt dies (b. 1888). German philosopher and political theorist.
  
• 1986 - Sinclair sells computer business. Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair sells rights to his machines to Amstrad in a £ 5 m deal.
• 1986 - Brooke Brodack was born. American internet celebrity.
• 1986 - Leonid Kantorovich dies (b. 1912). Soviet mathematician and economist who shared the 1975 Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics with Tjalling Koopmans for their work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.
• 1988 - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• 1988 - Edward Speleers was born. British model and actor.
• 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway after a fire. 42 sailors die.
• 1989 – Alexa Demara was born. American model.
• 1989 - Franco Di Santo was born. Argentine footballer.
• 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.
• 1990 – Trent Cotchin was born. Australian footballer.
• 1990 - Ronald Evans dies (b. 1933). Astronaut.
• 1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
• 1992 - Ace Bailey dies (b. 1903). Canadian hockey player.
• 1993 - Attack submarine ex-Queenfish completes being recycled.
• 1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, part of the Tutsi minority, was assassinated by Hutu soldiers, which—with the prior deaths of Juvénal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, president of Burundi—sparked civil war in Rwanda.
• 1994 - FedEx Flight 705 incident occurs in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1994 - Albert Guðmundsson dies (b. 1923). Icelandic professional football player and politician.
• 1994 - Golo Mann dies (b. 1909). German historian.
• 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana dies (b. 1953). Prime Minister of Rwanda.
• 1997 - Georgi Shonin dies (b. 1935). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1997 - Luis Aloma dies (b. 1923). Cuban baseball player.
• 1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka dies (b. 1910). Japanese movie producer (Godzilla).
• 1997 - Witto Aloma dies (b. 1923). Baseball player.
• 1997 - Jacques Villeneuve (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prêmio de Buenos Aires .
• 1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup.
• 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas dies (b. 1890). American proeminent conservationist and environmentalist.
• 1998 - Broery Marantika was born. Indonesian singer.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by Serbian forces to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
• 1999 - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• 1999 - Segunda visita del Dalai Lama a Argentina. Es declarado Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
• 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.
• 2001 - Beatrice Straight dies (b. 1914). Academy Award-winning actress.
• 2001 - David Graf dies (b. 1950). American actor.
• 2001 - Beatrice Straight dies (b. 1914). American actress.
• 2002 - John Agar dies (b. 1921). American actor.
• 2003 - US troops capture Baghdad, Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
• 2003 - David Greene dies (b. 1921). British television director.
• 2003 - Ferdinand Seibt dies (b. 1927). German historian.
• 2003 - Jutta Hipp dies (b. 1925). German born jazz pianist.
• 2004 – Konstantinos Kallias dies (b. 1901). Greek politician.
  
• 2004 - Victor Argo dies (b. 1934). American actor.
• 2005 - The State of Connecticut allows same-sex civil unions.
• 2005 - Bob Kennedy dies (b. 1920). American baseball player and manager.
• 2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis dies (b. 1922). Greek singer.
• 2005 - Cliff Allison dies (b. 1932). British racing driver.
• 2006 - Severe tornadoes rip through central Tennessee, destroying hundreds of homes and killing 13 people.
• 2007 - Barry Nelson dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 2007 - Diego Corrales dies (b. 1977). American boxer.
• 2007 - Johnny Hart dies (b. 1931). American cartoonist.
• 2008 - Mark Speight dies (b. 1965). English Artist, Presenter of Cbbc Smart.
• 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
• 2009 – Dave Arneson dies (b. 1947). Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
• 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.
• Saint John Baptist de La Salle (d. 1719).
• Saint Aibert of Crespin (d. 1140).
• Portugal: Dia Nacional dos Moinhos