History Events on April 07

Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

#Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition

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

#Rodgers_and_Hammerstein

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

#Corpus_Juris_Civilis

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.

#John_Barry_(naval_officer)

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

#Peru

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.

#American_Civil_War

The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

#World_Trade_Organization

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

#STS-6

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

#World_War_II

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

#First_Chechen_War

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

#Internet

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

#Attila

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

#Federal_Express_Flight_705

The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

#World_Health_Organization

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.

#The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine

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

#Booker_T._Washington

The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

#Algeciras_Conference

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

#Winston_Churchill

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.

#Mississippi_Territory

Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).

#Iran-Contra_affair

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

#Siegfried_Buback

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

#Bulldozer

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

#Rwandan_genocide

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

#Scroll_Serpent

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.

#Syria

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

#Visoko

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

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

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

#Iran_hostage_crisis

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.)

#Prohibition_in_the_United_States

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

#Soviet_submarine_K-278_Komsomolets

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.

#Lake_Biwa_Canal

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

#Joseph_Smith

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

#United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior

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

#Ioannis_Rallis

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

#John_Walker_(inventor)

IBM announces the System/360.

#IBM

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

#Johann_Sebastian_Bach

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

#Pedro_I_of_Brazil

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

#Jim_Clark

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

#John_Stonehouse

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

#Thomas_D'Arcy_McGee

Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.

#Selim_III

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

#Richard_Nixon

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

#Francis_Xavier

U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

#Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

#Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

#Mount_Vesuvius

Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

#Ferdinand_Magellan

The 2017 Stockholm attack kills five and injures fifteen others.

Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Mars Odyssey is launched.

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

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

Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate against the termination of the Colville tribe in Washington DC.

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

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

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

Charles University is founded in Prague.

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