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This day in history: 7 April

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Key facts

479 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 7 April.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2022: Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin

Christian feast days: April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast days: Blessed Alexander Rawlins

Christian feast days: Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley

Christian feast days: Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta

Christian feast days: Brynach

Christian feast days: Hegesippus

Christian feast days: Henry Walpole

Christian feast days: Hermann Joseph

Christian feast days: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

Christian feast days: Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))

Flag Day (Slovenia)

Events

2022Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.

2021COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.

2020COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.

2020COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.

2018Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Cour

2018Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.

2017A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.

2017U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.

2011A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.

2011The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.

2009Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

2009Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

2005First release of Git distributed version control system.

2003Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt.

2003Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.

2001NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

1999Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.

1995First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

1994Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.

1994Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

1990A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.

1990John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair. In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.

1989Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.

1988Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1983During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.

1982Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.

1980During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.

1978Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

1977German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

1976Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.

1972Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.

1971Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.

1969The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.

1968Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.

1965Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe.

1964IBM announces the System/360.

1956Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.

1954United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

1948The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

1946The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Born on this day

1997Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player

1996Emerson Hyndman, American international soccer player

1994Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player

1994Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater

1994Josh Hader, American baseball player

1993Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler

1992Andreea Acatrinei, Romanian gymnast

1992Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer

1991Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter

1991Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer

1990Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler

1990Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter

1990Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player

1990Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer

1989Franco Di Santo, Argentinian footballer

1989Mitchell Pearce, Australian rugby league player

1989Teddy Riner, French judoka

1988Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer

1988Ed Speleers, English actor and producer

1987Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete

1987Jamar Smith, American football player

1987Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer

1986Andi Fraggs, English singer-songwriter and producer

1986Brooke Brodack, American comedian

1986Choi Si-won, South Korean singer and actor

1986Christian Fuchs, Austrian footballer

1986Jack Duarte, Mexican actor, singer, and guitarist

1985Humza Yousaf, Scottish politician

1985KC Concepcion, Filipino actress and singer

1984Hiroko Shimabukuro, Japanese singer

1983Franck Ribéry, French footballer

1983Hamish Davidson, Australian musician

1983Jakub Smrž, Czech motorcycle rider

1983Janar Talts, Estonian basketball player

1983Jon Stead, English footballer

1982Kelli Young, English singer

1982Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress

1982Sonjay Dutt, American wrestler

1981Hitoe Arakaki, Japanese singer

1981Kazuki Watanabe, Japanese songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

Died on this day

2026Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football player and manager (born 1945)

2025Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957)

2025William Finn, American composer and lyricist (born 1952)

2024Jerry Grote, American baseball player (born 1942)

2024Joe Kinnear, Irish football player and manager (born 1946)

2023Ben Ferencz, American lawyer (born 1920)

2023Philippe Bouvatier, French cyclist (born 1964)

2021Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1950)

2020Herb Stempel, American television personality (born 1926)

2020John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter (born 1946)

2019Seymour Cassel, American actor (born 1935)

2017Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1941)

2015Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (born 1935)

2015José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1981)

2015Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (born 1983)

2015Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (born 1926)

2015Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (born 1919)

2014George Dureau, American painter and photographer (born 1930)

2014George Shuffler, American guitarist (born 1925)

2014James Alexander Green, American-English mathematician and academic (born 1926)

2014John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (born 1931)

2014Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (born 1927)

2014Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (born 1942)

2014V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (born 1923)

2014Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (born 1952)

2013Andy Johns, English-American record producer (born 1950)

2013Carl Williams, American boxer (born 1959)

2013Irma Ravinale, Italian composer and educator (born 1937)

2013Les Blank, American director and producer (born 1935)

2013Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (born 1931)

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“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

attributed to the Buddha

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