YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
1028 | Apr 7 | Pope Benedict VIII died. |
1118 | Apr 7 | Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor. |
1348 | Apr 7 | Prague Univ., the 1st in central Europe, was started by Charles IV. |
1498 | Apr 7 | A crowd stormed Savonarola’s convent of San Marco in Florence, Italy. |
1625 | Apr 7 | Albrecht von Wallenstein was appointed German supreme commander. |
1645 | Apr 7 | Michael Cardozo became the 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil. |
1652 | Apr 7 | The Dutch established settlement at Cape Town, South Africa. |
1775 | Apr 7 | Francis C. Lowell was born. He founded the 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill. |
1794 | Apr 7 | In Poland at the battle of Raclawice the revolutionary forces of Tadeusz Kosciusko defeated the imperial armies. |
1818 | Apr 7 | Gen. Andrew Jackson captured St. Marks, Fla., from the Seminole Indians. |
1827 | Apr 7 | English chemist John Walker invented wooden matches. |
1831 | Apr 7 | Pedro I of Brazil abdicated in favor of his 5-year-old son, Pedro de Alcantara, Pedro II. |
1853 | Apr 7 | Dr. John Snow administered chloroform to Queen Victoria at the birth of her 8th child, Prince Leopold. |
1858 | Apr 7 | Anton Diabelli (76), Austrian publisher, composer, died. |
1863 | Apr 7 | Battle of Charleston, SC. The Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter failed. |
1888 | Apr 7 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Yellow Face.” |
1891 | Apr 7 | Nebraska introduced an 8 hour work day. |
1914 | Apr 7 | British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule Bill. |
1917 | Apr 7 | De Falla’s ballet “El Sombrero de tres Picos,” premiered in Madrid. |
1923 | Apr 7 | The 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic was performed at Beth Israel Hospital in NYC by Dr K. Winfield Ney. |
1927 | Apr 7 | Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was on hand for the first inter-city (DC to Manhattan) transmission by telephone of video imagery. Hoover’s image and voice were transmitted across telephone lines. |
1932 | Apr 7 | Erv A. Kelley, US policeman, was shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd. |
1934 | Apr 7 | In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience. |
1942 | Apr 7 | There was a heavy German assault on Malta. |
1943 | Apr 7 | US Marine Lt. James Swett (1920-2009), division leader of Squadron 221, shot down 7 Japanese bombers over the Solomon Islands. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on this day. |
1955 | Apr 7 | Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman), silent screen sex symbol, died. Her films included “A Fool There Was” and “Kathleen Mavoureen.” |
1963 | Apr 7 | Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic. |
1966 | Apr 7 | The United States recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain. |
1971 | Apr 7 | Pres. Nixon ordered Lt. Calley, imprisoned for the Mi Lai massacre, free. |
1972 | Apr 7 | “Crazy” Joe Gallo, flamboyant mobster, was gunned down at his 43rd birthday party in Manhattan’s Umberto’s Clam House. |
1977 | Apr 7 | Pres. Carter stopped the reprocessing of used nuclear fuel rods in order to discourage the proliferation of nuclear weapons. |
1978 | Apr 7 | President Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon. |
1983 | Apr 7 | Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson took the first US space walk in almost a decade as they worked in the open cargo bay of Challenger for nearly four hours. |
1987 | Apr 7 | Chicago Mayor Harold Washington handily won a second term, quashing a challenge by archrival Edward Vrdolyak. |
1989 | Apr 7 | A week after the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster, President Bush pledged federal assistance to help in the clean-up. |
1990 | Apr 7 | A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center, the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. Both were later acquitted. |
1993 | Apr 7 | European warplanes began arriving in Italy, prepared to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
1994 | Apr 7 | Angelus Gottfried “Golo” Mann (85), German-US historian, died. |
1997 | Apr 7 | The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Steven Millhauser for “Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer,” but no award was given for drama. The Times-Picayune of New Orleans won two journalism Pulitzers, including the public service prize, for a series examining how overfishing and pollution are devastating the oceans. |
1999 | Apr 7 | In Kentucky 2 volunteer firefighters, Kenneth Nickell (28) and Kevin Smith (30), were killed while battling a blaze at the Daniel Boone National Forest. |
2000 | Apr 7 | Pres. Clinton signed a bill to allow people aged 65-70 to earn as much as they can without losing Social Security benefits. |
2002 | Apr 7 | Pres. Bush ended weekend talks with Britain’s PM Tony Blair in Texas. Blair said he would back a US military action against Iraq. |
2003 | Apr 7 | Syracuse beat Kansas 81-78 in the NCAA Basketball finals. |
2004 | Apr 7 | Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) issued its latest “Pig Book,” an exposition of “improper of unnecessary” US federal expenditures. |
2005 | Apr 7 | Pres. Bush met with Premier Berlusconi and Pres. Ciampi one day after viewing the pope’s body at the Vatican. |
2006 | Apr 7 | The US Court of International Law ruled that US Customs violated a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in applying a law known as the Byrd amendment to antidumping and countervailing duties on goods from Canada and Mexico. |
2007 | Apr 7 | The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition that the Bush administration in January allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from North Korea in an apparent violation of a UN Security Council sanctions resolution passed months earlier over its nuclear test. |
2008 | Apr 7 | The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzer Prizes, the most in its history. Junot Diaz won the fiction award for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Tracy Letts won the drama award for “August: Osage County.” Bob Dylan won a special citation for his life’s work. |
2009 | Apr 7 | US military leaders said the Pentagon has spent over $100 million in the past 6 months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems. |
2010 | Apr 7 | An Emeryville, Ca., drug analysis laboratory was raided as part of 3-year DEA investigation dubbed “Operation Lude Behavior.” 3 men at the lab were among 22 charged in a nationwide Quaalude trafficking ring. |
2011 | Apr 7 | US House Republicans pushed a plan that would hold off for another week the threat of a government shutdown while Congress and the Obama administration struggle to reach a budget deal. Democrats pressing for a longer-term solution rejected the short-term approach as a political maneuver meant to blame them if the government closes its doors on April 9. |
2012 | Apr 7 | In the SF Bay Area the town of Hercules, population 24,000, was reported to have recently sold a pair of 4-story, half-finished apartment buildings for 425,000. The city had already sunk 38 million into the project, which it could not sustain. |
2013 | Apr 7 | In California it was made public that a federal magistrate has ruled that federal authorities broke the law when they leased land to oil drillers without studying the possible risks of hydraulic fracturing. |
2014 | Apr 7 | The US approved a bill barring Iranian diplomat Hamid Abutalebi from entering the country. Officials objected to his selection as Iran’s new UN ambassador because of his alleged participation in a Muslim student group that held 52 Americans hostage in the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran. |
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