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April 7 in History

Historical Events on April 7

451

Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529

First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
611

Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
1141

Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
1348

Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724

Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767

End of Burmese-Siamese War (1765-67).
1776

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788

American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
1789

Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
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.
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 premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1827

John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
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.
1868

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
1890

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1906

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908

H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
1922

The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
1927

The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
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)
1939

World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940

Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
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.
1943

Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1945

World War II: The Yamato, one of the two largest battleships ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
1945

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948

The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1949

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
1954

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1964

IBM announces the System/360.
1964

A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
1968

Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
1969

The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1971

President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1976

Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
1977

German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978

Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980

During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
1983

During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1989

Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
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).
1990

A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
1994

Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1994

Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
1995

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999

The World Trade Organization 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.
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.
2017

2017 Stockholm attack happened on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden. A stolen truck slams into people at high speed, killing five and injuring fifteen others.

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