April 7

What happened that day?

• 2017: 2017 [Stockholm](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm) attack happened on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden. A stolen truck slams into people at high speed, killing five and injuring fifteen others.
• 2009: Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
• 2009: Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
• 2003: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
• 2001: Mars Odyssey is launched.
• 1999: The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• 1995: First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
• 1994: Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
• 1994: [Rwanda](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda)n genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
• 1990: A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
• 1990: Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
• 1989: Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
• 1983: During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• 1980: During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
• 1978: Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
• 1977: German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• 1976: Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK)) after being arrested for faking his own death.
• 1971: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
• 1969: The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
• 1968: Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
• 1964: A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
• 1964: IBM announces the System/360.
• 1955: Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• 1954: United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
• 1949: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
• 1948: The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1946: Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
• 1945: World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
• 1945: World War II: The Yamato, one of the two largest battleships ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
• 1943: Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• 1943: The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, 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.
• 1940: Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 1939: World War II: Italy invades Albania.
• 1933: 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 of America)
• 1927: The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 1922: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
• 1908: H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• 1906: The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
• 1906: Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• 1890: Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• 1868: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
• 1862: 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.
• 1831: Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
• 1829: Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
• 1827: John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
• 1805: German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• 1805: Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
• 1798: 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.
• 1789: Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1788: American pioneers to the [Northwest Territory](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory) establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
• 1776: Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
• 1767: End of Burmese-Siamese War (1765-67)).
• 1724: Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
• 1541: Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
• 1521: Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
• 1348: Charles University is founded in Prague.
• 1141: Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
• 611: Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
• 529: First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
• 451: Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.