April 7: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

April 7th marks the 97th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 98th in case of leap years). There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Russell Crowe (1964), Billie Holiday (1915) and Jackie Chan (1954). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Health Day and International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
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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 Officially, the Government of National Accord in Tripoli announces the launch of a counteroffensive for retaking all capital areas held by the Libyan National Army.
2018 Ten Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops near the Israel-Gaza border, including a journalist. Protests are continuing.
2017 In response to claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons during its attack on Khan Shaykhun, the United States launches 60 Tomahawk cruise rockets. According to the Government of Syria, six soldiers were killed and nine civilians were injured in the attack. Four children were among them.
2016 Syrian Civil War: Syrian state television reports that ISIL militants kidnapped more than 300 employees from a cement plant outside Al-Dumayr this week. Since then, no contact has been made.
2015 Intervention in Yemen: According to the World Health Organisation, 560 people died and over 1,700 were injured since three weeks ago when fighting intensified. More than 100,000 people fled their homes.
2014 Pro-Russian activists who occupied a government building in Donetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city, have declared the establishment of a sovereign Donetsk People's Republic that is independent from Kiev.
2013 Syrian civil war: 15 people are killed in an air strike by the Syrian Air Force on Aleppo. Nine of them were children. (Euronews). (Al Arabiya).OTR-21 Tochka missiles fired by the Syrian Armed Forces at Baraza, Damascus.
2012 After General Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar (the former Chief of Air Force and half-brother to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh) threatened to attack aircraft, Sana'a's airport has been closed.
2011 Mexican Drug War march, inspired by the murder of seven people, including Javier Sicilia, a prominent poet and journalist, took place in more than 20 Mexican cities. Marchers shouted "No more blood!"
2010 The Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid rioting and creates a sociopolitical crisis. Roza Otunbayeva, a former foreign minister, is appointed to the head of the interim government after the opposition takes control.
2009 In Moldova, mass protests are started under the belief of fraud in the results of the parliamentary elections.
2008 Child Protective Services of Texas removed 401 children from a ranch west of Texas owned by Warren Jeffs, a polygamist leader in prison. Several women were also taken away or expelled in an investigation into child and sexual abuse.
2007 In Sirnak, Turkish soldiers were killed during a clash between Kurdistan Workers Party forces.
2006 A number of tornadoes struck the U.S. state of Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana for the second time in less that a week.
2005 The Mexican Chamber of Deputies votes 360 to 127 in favor of suspending the executive immunity of Mayor Andres Manual Lopez Obrador of Mexico City. This enables him to be removed from office and face criminal charges.
2004 The study provides estimates on how long it took to reverse the Earth's magnet field four times. The study also shows that turnarounds are more rapid at the equator, than at higher latitudes near the poles.
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2002 Reports suggest that Martin Dunwoody may have solved the Poincare conjecture.
2001 Timothy Thomas, a 19 year-old African-American is shot in Cincinnati by a Cincinnati police officer. This incident sparked riots in downtown Cincinnati between April 10 and April 12.
2000 The Chalk Point Generating Station of Pepco, located in southern Maryland, USA, releases approximately 420,000 litres oil. There are 6 1/2 miles of oil containment booms that capture an estimated 300,000.
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
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
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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