April 7
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April 7 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining after April 7 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Cebu.
- 1782 – Thailand became a country.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh ends in a Union victory.
- 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts.
- 1908 – H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a US postage stamp.
- 1946 – Syria's independence is recognised.
- 1948 – The United Nations created the World Health Organization
- 1955 – Anthony Eden replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1977 – German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback is shot dead, along with his driver, by two members of the Red Army Faction.
- 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 42 people.
- 1992 – Republika Srpska declares independence.
- 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins. One of the first victims is Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
- 2001 – The Mars Odyssey space probe is launched.
- 2003 – US troops capture Baghdad.
- 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
- 2010 – In Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the capital city Bishkek, after days of fierce rioting. Roza Otunbayeva is installed as Head of Government.
[change] Births
- 1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
- 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- 1847 – Jens Peder Jacobsen, Danish writer (d. 1885)
- 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d. 1884)
- 1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German military officer and Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer (d. 1945)
- 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor, of Lego (d. 1958)
- 1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1915 – Billie Holiday, American jazz singer (d. 1959)
- 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
- 1924 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
- 1928 – James Garner, American actor
- 1929 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
- 1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor
- 1934 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
- 1938 – Jerry Brown, American politician, Governor of California
- 1938 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
- 1939 – David Frost, British broadcaster
- 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
- 1941 – Gorden Kaye, British actor
- 1944 – Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor
- 1945 – Werner Schroeter, German film director (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1948 – Pietro Anastasi, Italian footballer
- 1949 – Mitch Daniels, American politician
- 1951 – Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
- 1954 – Jackie Chan, Chinese (Hong Kong) actor
- 1961 – Luigi De Agostini, Italian footballer
- 1962 – Ram Gopal Varma, Indian director, producer and screenwriter
- 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1965 – Alison Lapper, British artist
- 1968 – Jennifer Lynch, American director
- 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
- 1971 – Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
- 1979 – Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Duncan James, British singer
- 1980 – Carl Fletcher, Welsh footballer
- 1989 – Franco di Santo, Argentine footballer
- 1992 – Alexis Jordan, American singer
[change] Deaths
- 1498 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
- 1614 – El Greco, Greek-born Spanish painter (b. 1541)
- 1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Governor-General (b. 1603)
- 1739 – Dick Turpin, English outlaw (b. 1705)
- 1762 – Pietro Guarneri, Italian violin maker (b. 1695)
- 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
- 1804 – Toussant Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743)
- 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
- 1833 – Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (b. 1775)
- 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of the Confederation (b. 1825)
- 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
- 1891 – P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
- 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
- 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
- 1947 – Henry Ford, American business person (b. 1863)
- 1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
- 1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (b. 1936)
- 1972 – Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Siegfried Buback, German federal prosecutor (b. 1920)
- 1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
- 1992 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
- 1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2009 – Dave Arneson, creator of the game Dungeons and Dragons (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Christopher Cazenove, British actor (b. 1945)
