April 7th Events |
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| April 7th, 2003 (April 07 2003) | Event | U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein s regime falls two days later. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| April 7th, 2001 (April 07 2001) | Event | Mars Odyssey is launched. | |
| April 7th, 1999 (April 07 1999) | Event | The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. | |
| April 7th, 1994 (April 07 1994) | Event | Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. | |
| April 7th, 1992 (April 07 1992) | Event | Republika Srpska announces its independence. | |
| April 7th, 1990 (April 07 1990) | Event | Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal). | |
| April 7th, 1989 (April 07 1989) | Event | Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors. | |
| April 7th, 1985 (April 07 1985) | Event | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. | |
| April 7th, 1983 (April 07 1983) | Event | During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. | |
| April 7th, 1978 (April 07 1978) | Event | Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| April 7th, 1977 (April 07 1977) | Event | German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. | |
| April 7th, 1976 (April 07 1976) | Event | Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party. | |
| April 7th, 1971 (April 07 1971) | Event | U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam. | |
| April 7th, 1969 (April 07 1969) | Event | The Internet s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. | |
| April 7th, 1968 (April 07 1968) | Event | Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany. | |
| April 7th, 1964 (April 07 1964) | Event | IBM announces the System/360. | |
| April 7th, 1963 (April 07 1963) | Event | Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life. | Josip Broz Tito Quotes |
| April 7th, 1956 (April 07 1956) | Event | Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco. | |
| April 7th, 1954 (April 07 1954) | Event | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| April 7th, 1948 (April 07 1948) | Event | The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. | |
| April 7th, 1948 (April 07 1948) | Event | A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. | |
| April 7th, 1946 (April 07 1946) | Event | Syria s independence from France is officially recognised. | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Event | World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. | |
| April 7th, 1945 (April 07 1945) | Event | World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. | |
| April 7th, 1943 (April 07 1943) | Event | Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. There they are shot dead and buried in ditches. | |
| April 7th, 1940 (April 07 1940) | Event | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. | Booker T. Washington Quotes |
| April 7th, 1939 (April 07 1939) | Event | World War II: Italy invades Albania. | |
| April 7th, 1933 (April 07 1933) | Event | Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. | |
| April 7th, 1927 (April 07 1927) | Event | First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| April 7th, 1922 (April 07 1922) | Event | Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. | |
| April 7th, 1908 (April 07 1908) | Event | H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | |
| April 7th, 1906 (April 07 1906) | Event | Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. | |
| April 7th, 1906 (April 07 1906) | Event | The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. | |
| April 7th, 1890 (April 07 1890) | Event | Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal. | |
| April 7th, 1868 (April 07 1868) | Event | Thomas D Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. | |
| April 7th, 1862 (April 07 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh endsthe Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| April 7th, 1829 (April 07 1829) | Event | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 7th, 1827 (April 07 1827) | Event | John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year. | |
| April 7th, 1805 (April 07 1805) | Event | Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. | |
| April 7th, 1805 (April 07 1805) | Event | First public performance of Beethoven s Third Symphony (Eroica). | |
| April 7th, 1798 (April 07 1798) | Event | 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. | |
| April 7th, 1795 (April 07 1795) | Event | France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. | |
| April 7th, 1788 (April 07 1788) | Event | American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at 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. | |
| April 7th, 1776 (April 07 1776) | Event | Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. | |
| April 7th, 1541 (April 07 1541) | Event | Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. | |
| April 7th, 1521 (April 07 1521) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. | |
| April 7th, 1348 (April 07 1348) | Event | Charles University is founded in Prague. | |
| April 7th, 0529 (April 07 0529) | Event | First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. | |
