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What Happened on April 7th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
2021	COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
2020	COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
2020	COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
2018	Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”.[27] Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
2018	Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.
2017	A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
2017	U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
2011	The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
2009	Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009	Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2003	Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
2001	NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
1995	First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1994	Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
1994	Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
1990	A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
1990	John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair.
1989	Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
1988	Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1983	During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1982	Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
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 after being arrested for faking his own death.
1972	Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
1971	Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1969	The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1968	Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.
1965	Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. against the termination of the Colville tribe.
1964	IBM announces the System/360.
1956	Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
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.
1948	The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1946	The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1945	World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
1943	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.
1943	Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1943	The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
1940	Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1939	Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
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 Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
1933	Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
1927	AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1926	Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
1922	Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
1906	Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906	The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
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	Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil.
1805	Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1805	German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1798	The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1795	The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
1790	Greek War of Independence: Greek revolutionary Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros.
1788	Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.
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.
1449	Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of the final Antipope.
1348	Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.
1141	Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English".
529	First Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
451	Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.

Famous People Born on April 7

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Year	Name
1983	Franck Ribéry, French footballer
1976	Barbara Jane Reams, American actress
1889	Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1946	Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenian politician and diplomate
1944	Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
1930	Andrew Sachs, German-English actor and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1952	David Baulcombe, English geneticist and academic
1817	Francesco Selmi, Italian chemist and patriot (d. 1881)
1965	Nenad Vučinić, Serbian-New Zealand basketball player and coach
1981	Vanessa Olivarez, American singer-songwriter, and actress

Famous People Deaths On April 7

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 7. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1947	Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
821	George the Standard-Bearer, archbishop of Mytilene (b. c. 776)
1606	Edward Oldcorne, English martyr (b. 1561)
1986	Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
1849	Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)
2013	Marty Blake, American businessman (b. 1927)
2012	Steven Kanumba, Tanzanian actor and director (b. 1984)
1956	Fred Appleby, English runner (b. 1879)
2007	Johnny Hart, American author and illustrator (b. 1931)
2014	George Dureau, American painter and photographer (b. 1930)