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Events on the 7th of April in history

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07 Apr 0397 The wearing of barbarian clothing in the City of Rome is banned by the Emperor Honorius.
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07 Apr 0451 Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
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07 Apr 0529 First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
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07 Apr 0611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
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07 Apr 1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
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07 Apr 1141 Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
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07 Apr 1348 Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
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07 Apr 1348 Charles University is founded in Prague.
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07 Apr 1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
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07 Apr 1509 France declares war on Venice
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07 Apr 1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
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07 Apr 1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
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07 Apr 1541 Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
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07 Apr 1584 Ieper surrenders to Duke Van Parma
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07 Apr 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German Supreme Commander
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07 Apr 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
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07 Apr 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
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07 Apr 1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
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07 Apr 1724 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
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07 Apr 1767 End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
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07 Apr 1776 Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
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07 Apr 1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
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07 Apr 1788 American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive 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.
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07 Apr 1789 Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
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07 Apr 1798 Mississippi Territory organized
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07 Apr 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.
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07 Apr 1805 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
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07 Apr 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
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07 Apr 1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks, Florida from Seminole indians
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07 Apr 1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
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07 Apr 1827 John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
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07 Apr 1829 Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
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07 Apr 1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned Emperor of Brazil
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07 Apr 1831 Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
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07 Apr 1860 Grand Duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
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07 Apr 1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
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07 Apr 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
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07 Apr 1863 Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
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07 Apr 1865 Battle of Farmville, Virginia
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07 Apr 1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
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07 Apr 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
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07 Apr 1890 Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
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07 Apr 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
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07 Apr 1901 SDAP demands general voting right / abolishing First Chamber
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07 Apr 1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
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07 Apr 1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business
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07 Apr 1906 The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
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07 Apr 1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
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07 Apr 1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
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07 Apr 1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
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07 Apr 1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome, " leased to Harry F Sinclair
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07 Apr 1922 Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
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07 Apr 1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
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07 Apr 1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
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07 Apr 1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 (San Luis Obispo, California)
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07 Apr 1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York City
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07 Apr 1927 First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
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07 Apr 1928 44-yr old New York Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
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07 Apr 1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
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07 Apr 1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service
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07 Apr 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
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07 Apr 1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
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07 Apr 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.
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07 Apr 1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
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07 Apr 1939 Italy invades Albania
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07 Apr 1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
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07 Apr 1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
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07 Apr 1940 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280
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07 Apr 1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
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07 Apr 1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
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07 Apr 1943 British / US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
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07 Apr 1943 Lt Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
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07 Apr 1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
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07 Apr 1943 Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
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07 Apr 1943 The 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 where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
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07 Apr 1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
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07 Apr 1945 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
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07 Apr 1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
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07 Apr 1945 World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
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07 Apr 1945 World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
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07 Apr 1946 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
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07 Apr 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
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07 Apr 1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
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07 Apr 1948 World Health Organization forms by UN
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07 Apr 1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
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07 Apr 1948 The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
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07 Apr 1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
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07 Apr 1951 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
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07 Apr 1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
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07 Apr 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
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07 Apr 1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
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07 Apr 1954 President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
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07 Apr 1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, Georgia (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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07 Apr 1954 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
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07 Apr 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
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07 Apr 1956 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
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07 Apr 1956 Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
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07 Apr 1957 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
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07 Apr 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
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07 Apr 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
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07 Apr 1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun - Stanford, California
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07 Apr 1962 Yugoslav ex-President Milovan Djilas returns to jail
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07 Apr 1963 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
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07 Apr 1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
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07 Apr 1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic Republic
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07 Apr 1964 IBM announces the System/360.
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07 Apr 1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs. Pakistan
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07 Apr 1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
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07 Apr 1967 Israeli / Syrian border fights
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07 Apr 1967 Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
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07 Apr 1967 Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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07 Apr 1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
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07 Apr 1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washingston Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
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07 Apr 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
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07 Apr 1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds, " premieres in New York City
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07 Apr 1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy, " John Wayne and Maggie Smith win
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07 Apr 1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
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07 Apr 1971 President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
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07 Apr 1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
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07 Apr 1971 President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
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07 Apr 1973 Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
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07 Apr 1976 Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
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07 Apr 1976 Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
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07 Apr 1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
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07 Apr 1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
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07 Apr 1977 German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
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07 Apr 1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City
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07 Apr 1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
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07 Apr 1978 Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
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07 Apr 1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
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07 Apr 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
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07 Apr 1980 The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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07 Apr 1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
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07 Apr 1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
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07 Apr 1982 Iran Minister of Foreign Affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
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07 Apr 1983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - series tied 1-1
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07 Apr 1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
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07 Apr 1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
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07 Apr 1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event
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07 Apr 1983 During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
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07 Apr 1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
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07 Apr 1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
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07 Apr 1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
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07 Apr 1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
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07 Apr 1985 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
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07 Apr 1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
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07 Apr 1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
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07 Apr 1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington DC
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07 Apr 1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
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07 Apr 1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
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07 Apr 1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
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07 Apr 1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
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07 Apr 1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
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07 Apr 1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
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07 Apr 1990 Farm Aid IV concert
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07 Apr 1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
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07 Apr 1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
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07 Apr 1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
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07 Apr 1990 New York Rangers beat the New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
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07 Apr 1990 A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
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07 Apr 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).
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07 Apr 1991 "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
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07 Apr 1991 "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances
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07 Apr 1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
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07 Apr 1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
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07 Apr 1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03 / 24
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07 Apr 1992 Republika Srpska announces its independence.
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07 Apr 1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
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07 Apr 1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
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07 Apr 1994 New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
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07 Apr 1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
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07 Apr 1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
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07 Apr 1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
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07 Apr 1994 Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
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07 Apr 1994 Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
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07 Apr 1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
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07 Apr 1995 First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
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07 Apr 1996 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
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07 Apr 1996 Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs. Pak, Singapore
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07 Apr 1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
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07 Apr 1996 Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
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07 Apr 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
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07 Apr 1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
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07 Apr 2001 Mars Odyssey is launched.
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07 Apr 2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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07 Apr 2009 Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
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07 Apr 2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
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