Notable Historical Events on April 7th
April 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
30 |
Scholars' estimate of Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem |
451 |
Attila's Huns plunder Metz |
529 |
First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. |
1118 |
Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor |
1348 |
Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV |
1456 |
Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik |
1498 |
Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy |
1509 |
France declares war on Venice |
1521 |
Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books |
1521 |
Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu |
1541 |
Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. |
1584 |
Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma |
1625 |
Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander |
1645 |
Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil |
1652 |
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa |
1655 |
Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII |
1712 |
Slave revolt (NYC) |
1724 |
Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig |
1739 |
Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing |
1776 |
Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. |
1788 |
1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta |
1795 |
France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. |
1798 |
Mississippi Territory organized |
1805 |
Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself) |
1818 |
General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians |
1827 |
English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches |
1831 |
Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil |
1860 |
Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe |
1862 |
Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls |
1863 |
Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter |
1865 |
Battle of Farmville VA |
1868 |
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 only federal politician. |
1888 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG) |
1890 |
Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal. |
1891 |
Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day |
1901 |
SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber |
1902 |
Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms |
1906 |
Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business |
1906 |
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. |
1917 |
De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" premieres in Madrid |
1917 |
James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her" premieres in London |
1919 |
1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks |
1922 |
Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair |
1922 |
Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals |
1923 |
1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney |
1923 |
Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party |
1926 |
Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California) |
1926 |
Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose |
1927 |
Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC |
1928 |
44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 |
1931 |
Seals Stadium opens in SF |
1933 |
1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service |
1933 |
'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer |
1933 |
University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic |
1934 |
In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience |
1939 |
Italy invades Albania |
1940 |
1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington) |
1940 |
7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280 |
1941 |
British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa |
1942 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1943 |
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1943 |
British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
1943 |
Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid |
1943 |
NFL adopts free substitution rule |
1944 |
General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan |
1945 |
1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers |
1945 |
US B-17s bombs range at Luneburg |
1945 |
US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk |
1946 |
10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282 |
1946 |
Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR |
1946 |
Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. |
1948 |
World Health Organization forms by UN |
1948 |
A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. |
1949 |
"South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances |
1951 |
15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280 |
1951 |
American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament |
1951 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1953 |
1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight |
1953 |
Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary |
1954 |
German government refuses to recognize DDR |
1954 |
US President Eisenhower in news conference first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China |
1954 |
WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1 |
1956 |
Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco |
1957 |
21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283 |
1957 |
Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run |
1958 |
Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line |
1959 |
Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years |
1959 |
Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif |
1962 |
Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes |
1962 |
Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail |
1963 |
27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
1963 |
Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic |
1963 |
Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors |
1964 |
IBM announces the System/360. |
1965 |
Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan |
1966 |
US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) |
1967 |
Israeli/Syrian border fights |
1967 |
Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM) |
1969 |
Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds |
1969 |
Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material |
1969 |
Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4 |
1969 |
The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. |
1970 |
"Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC |
1970 |
42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win |
1970 |
Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 |
1971 |
Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by |
1971 |
Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free |
1971 |
WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals |
1972 |
Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast |
1973 |
Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420 |
1973 |
Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown |
1974 |
Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC |
1975 |
Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries |
1976 |
Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping |
1977 |
Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant |
1977 |
Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5 |
1977 |
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. |
1978 |
Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC |
1978 |
Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb |
1978 |
US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 |
1979 |
Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water |
1979 |
Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 |
1979 |
Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers |
1980 |
Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis |
1981 |
Belgium Eyskens government forms |
1981 |
Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec |
1982 |
Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested |
1982 |
Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
1983 |
Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 |
1983 |
Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt |
1983 |
STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk |
1983 |
WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event |
1984 |
Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
1985 |
14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller |
1985 |
1st live telecast of Easter Parade |
1985 |
NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards |
1986 |
Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy |
1987 |
National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC |
1987 |
Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" |
1988 |
Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 |
1988 |
Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested |
1988 |
Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1989 |
Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths |
1989 |
NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules |
1990 |
BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr |
1990 |
Farm Aid IV concert |
1990 |
John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal |
1990 |
Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations |
1990 |
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary |
1990 |
Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma |
1991 |
"Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances |
1991 |
"Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs |
1991 |
3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
1991 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
1991 |
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth |
1991 |
George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 |
1991 |
Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 |
1992 |
Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence. |
1993 |
Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY) |
1994 |
"Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances |
1994 |
1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2 |
1994 |
NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6 |
1994 |
Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion |
1994 |
Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time |
1995 |
Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike |
1996 |
8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
1996 |
Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pak, Singapore |
1996 |
Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic |
1996 |
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM |
1999 |
The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. |
2001 |
Mars Odyssey is launched. |
2003 |
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. |
2003 |
37th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Toby Keith & Martina McBride wins |
2005 |
The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress. |
2009 |
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. |
2012 |
Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi |
2012 |
130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier |
2013 |
15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force |
2013 |
Sweden wins the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship defeating Canada |
2016 |
US executives urge repeal of Mississippi law opposed by gays |
2016 |
Panama Papers reveal Americans with past financial crimes |
2016 |
Allergan, Pfizer call off proposed $160B merger |
2016 |
San Francisco introducing 100% paid parental leave |
2017 |
Tim Tebow Hits Home Run in First Minor League At-Bat |
2017 |
Russia, Iran condemn US missile strikes on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack |
2017 |
US launches cruise missile strike on Syria after chemical weapons attack |
2017 |
Few ads run on 'O'Reilly Factor' as boycott takes effect |
2018 |
Conor McGregor arraigned on assault charges after bus attack outside UFC event |
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