April 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 7. From 1900 until now. April 7 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Russell Crowe (1964), Billie Holiday (1915) and Jackie Chan (1954). Several movies were released around April 7 over the years, such as Rear Window in 1990 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Cloud-Capped Star in 1960 directed by Ritwik Ghatak.
But much more happened on April 7 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Saint Herman-Jozef (died 1241)
World Health Day - April 7th of every year is designated as World Health Day and celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization to emphasize significant issues in public health of worldwide concern. Observed annually since 1948.
The feast of Annunciation is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Saint John Baptist de La Salle (d.1719)
Mozambique - Women's Day.
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Events

2019 The Government of National Accord in Tripoli formally announces the start of a counteroffensive to reclaim all parts of the capital held by the Libyan National Army. (Al Jazeera)
2018 Israeli troops shoot dead ten Palestinians near the Israel–Gaza barrier, including a Palestinian journalist, as protests continue. (BBC)
2017 The United States launches 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the Ash Sha'irat air base in Homs Governorate in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons in its attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The Government of Syria claims the attack killed six soldiers and nine civilians, including four children. (NBC News) (AFP via Yahoo News)
2016 Syrian Civil War: According to Syrian state television, ISIL militants kidnapped over 300 staff members from a cement factory outside of the city of Al-Dumayr earlier this week and no contact with them has been made since. (Al Jazeera)
2015 Intervention in Yemen: The World Health Organisation estimates that 560 people have died, more than 1,700 people have been injured and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes following the intensification of fighting three weeks ago. (AP via Virginia Gazette)
2014 Pro-Russian activists occupying a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have proclaimed the creation of a sovereign Donetsk People's Republic independent of the capital Kiev. (The Guardian) (The Irish Times)
2013 Syrian civil war:: An air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force kills 15 people, including nine children. (Euronews) (Al Arabiya)Syrian Armed Forces fire OTR-21 Tochka missiles at Baraza region of Damascus. (Al Arabiya)
2012 The airport at the Yemeni capital Sana'a is closed after forces loyal to General Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar, the former Chief of the Air Force and half-brother of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, threaten to attack aircraft. (Al Jazeera)
2011 A Mexican Drug War-related march inspired by the killing of seven people, one of whom was the son of prominent poet and journalist Javier Sicilia, occur in more than 20 Mexican cities, with marchers chanting ampquotNo more blood!ampquot. (LA Times)
2010 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid fierce rioting, sparking a sociopolitical crisis. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is placed at the head of an interim government as the opposition seizes control.
2009 Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2008 Child Protective Services of Texas remove 401 children from a ranch in west Texas belonging to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, and dozens of women leave or are removed in an investigation of sexual and child abuse.
2007 Turkish soldiers are killed in a clash with Kurdistan Workers' Party forces in Şırnak province. (Voice of America)
2006 For the second time in less than a week, a number of tornados strike the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. (FOX News)
2005 The Mexican Chamber of Deputies votes by 360 to 127 to suspend the executive immunity of Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico City, thereby removing him from office to face criminal charges. (BBC) (Reuters)
2004 Study reports estimates of how long it took for the last four reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. It also reports that the turnarounds occur more quickly nearer the equator than at higher latitudes closer to the poles. (MSN)
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2002 There are reports that the Poincaré conjecture may have been solved by Martin Dunwoody.
2001 Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old African-American, is shot by a police officer in Cincinnati, Ohio, sparking riots in downtown Cincinnati from April 10 to April 12.
2000 Pepco's Chalk Point Generating Station on the Patuxent River in southern Maryland, USA, spills about 420,000 litres of oil. Some 6 1/2 miles of oil containment booms are positioned in the river capturing an estimated 300,000 litres.
1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
1998 Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge, creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup.
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic.
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike.
1994 Medea opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1993 Dante Bichette hits the first Colorado Rockies homerun (Shea Stadium, New York).
1992 Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1991 Big Love closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on Nightline
1986 Wrestlemania II at three locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy.
1985 New Jersey Generals' Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards.
1984 Frank Church, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at age 59.
1983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - series tied 1-1
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested.
1981 Belgium Eysken's government forms.
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1979 Houston Astros' Ken Forsch pitches no-hitter against Atlanta Braves, 6-0.
1978 US President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb.
1977 Toronto Blue Jays' first game, they beat Chicago Cubs 9-5.
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping.
1973 Cleveland Indians sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420.
1972 Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy, Jr. hijacks a United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000 he is later captured.
1971 President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1970 Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds, premieres in New York City
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to New York Yankees 8-4.
1968 Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.
1967 Israeli / Syrian border fights
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand versus Pakistan.
1964 IBM introduces the IBM System/360 mainframe computer.
1963 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286.
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail.
1959 Oklahoma ends alcohol prohibition, after 51 years.
1957 Last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run.
1956 10th NBA Championship: Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1.
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1952 The American Research Bureau reports that the I Love Lucy episode, quotThe Marriage Licensequot was the first TV show in history to be seen in around 10,000,000 homes the evening the episode aired.
1951 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280.
1949 South Pacific opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1948 The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1946 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282.
1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
1943 British / US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience.
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
1927 First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills two (San Luis Obispo, California, USA).
1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official communist party.
1922 Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business.
1903 Fredrikstad Football Club (FFK) is founded in Norway.
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
1901 SDAP demands general voting right / abolishing First Chamber
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