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History Events on April 07

By  Victoria Antionette Chakales  07 Apr   95 Views

History Events on April 07

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Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

#Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition

In 1805

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.

#Rodgers_and_Hammerstein

In 1949

First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

#Corpus_Juris_Civilis

In 529

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.

#John_Barry_(naval_officer)

In 1776

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

#Peru

In 2009

American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.

#American_Civil_War

In 1862

The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

#World_Trade_Organization

In 1999

During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.

#STS-6

In 1983

World War II: The battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.

#World_War_II

In 1945

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

#First_Chechen_War

In 1995

The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.

#Internet

In 1969

Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.

#Attila

In 451

Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.

#Federal_Express_Flight_705

In 1994

The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

#World_Health_Organization

In 1948

The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.

#The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine

In 1943

Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

#Booker_T._Washington

In 1940

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

#Algeciras_Conference

In 1906

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

#Winston_Churchill

In 1955

The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.

#Mississippi_Territory

In 1798

Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).

#Iran-Contra_affair

In 1990

German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

#Siegfried_Buback

In 1977

A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.

#Bulldozer

In 1964

Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.

#Rwandan_genocide

In 1994

Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.

#Scroll_Serpent

In 611

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.

#Syria

In 1946

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.

#Visoko

In 1945

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

In 1954

During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.

#Iran_hostage_crisis

In 1980

Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)

#Prohibition_in_the_United_States

In 1933

Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

#Soviet_submarine_K-278_Komsomolets

In 1989

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

#Lake_Biwa_Canal

In 1890

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

#Joseph_Smith

In 1829

The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.

#United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior

In 1922

Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.

#Ioannis_Rallis

In 1943

John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

#John_Walker_(inventor)

In 1827

IBM announces the System/360.

#IBM

In 1964

Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

#Johann_Sebastian_Bach

In 1724

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.

#Pedro_I_of_Brazil

In 1831

Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.

#Jim_Clark

In 1968

Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.

#John_Stonehouse

In 1976

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.

#Thomas_D'Arcy_McGee

In 1868

Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.

#Selim_III

In 1789

President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.

#Richard_Nixon

In 1971

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

#Francis_Xavier

In 1541

U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

#Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)

In 2003

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

#Ludwig_van_Beethoven

In 1805

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

#Mount_Vesuvius

In 1906

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

#Ferdinand_Magellan

In 1521

The 2017 Stockholm attack kills five and injures fifteen others.

In 2017

Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

In 2009

Mars Odyssey is launched.

In 2001

A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.

In 1990

Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1978

Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate against the termination of the Colville tribe in Washington DC.

In 1965

The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).

In 1927

American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

In 1788

End of Burmese-Siamese War (1765-67).

In 1767

Charles University is founded in Prague.

In 1348

Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.

In 1141

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