History Events on April 07
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History Events on April 07
 
  
           Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
#Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
 
            In 1805 
           
 
           
  
           The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
#Rodgers_and_Hammerstein
 
            In 1949 
           
 
           
  
           First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
#Corpus_Juris_Civilis
 
            In 529 
           
 
           
  
           American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
#American_Civil_War
 
            In 1862 
           
 
           
  
           The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
#World_Trade_Organization
 
            In 1999 
           
 
          During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
#STS-6
 
            In 1983 
           
 
           
  
           First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
#First_Chechen_War
 
            In 1995 
           
 
           
  
           Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
#Federal_Express_Flight_705
 
            In 1994 
           
 
           
  
           The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
#World_Health_Organization
 
            In 1948 
           
 
           
  
           The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
#The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine
 
            In 1943 
           
 
           
  
           Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
#Booker_T._Washington
 
            In 1940 
           
 
           
  
           Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
#Winston_Churchill
 
            In 1955 
           
 
           
  
           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.
#Mississippi_Territory
 
            In 1798 
           
 
           
  
           Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
#Iran-Contra_affair
 
            In 1990 
           
 
           
  
           German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
#Siegfried_Buback
 
            In 1977 
           
 
           
  
           United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
#Dwight_D._Eisenhower
 
            In 1954 
           
 
           
  
           During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
#Iran_hostage_crisis
 
            In 1980 
           
 
           
  
           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. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
#Prohibition_in_the_United_States
 
            In 1933 
           
 
          Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
#Soviet_submarine_K-278_Komsomolets
 
            In 1989 
           
 
           
  
           The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
#United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior
 
            In 1922 
           
 
           
  
           Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
#Ioannis_Rallis
 
            In 1943 
           
 
           
  
           John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
#John_Walker_(inventor)
 
            In 1827 
           
 
           
  
           Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
#Johann_Sebastian_Bach
 
            In 1724 
           
 
           
  
           Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
#Pedro_I_of_Brazil
 
            In 1831 
           
 
           
  
           Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
#John_Stonehouse
 
            In 1976 
           
 
           
  
           Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
#Thomas_D'Arcy_McGee
 
            In 1868 
           
 
           
  
           President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
#Richard_Nixon
 
            In 1971 
           
 
           
  
           U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
#Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)
 
            In 2003 
           
 
           
  
           German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
#Ludwig_van_Beethoven
 
            In 1805 
           
 
           
            In 2001 
           
 
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