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What happened in history on this day: April 7?
On April 7 in ...
- 1862 - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; Island #10 falls.
- 1863 - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina; failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter.
- 1865 - Battle of Farmville, Virginia.
- 1866 - US Congress appropriates $250,000 for plates, engraving, printing, and paper for national currency.
- 1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms.
- 1923 - First brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr K Winfield Ney.
- 1923 - Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official communist party.
- 1926 - Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills two (San Luis Obispo, California, USA).
- 1927 - Using phone lines, television signal is sent from Washington DC to New York City, New York.
- 1932 - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd.
- 1933 - Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment, ending prohibition.
- 1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South Tunisia.
- 1945 - First and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers.
- 1945 - US B-17s bombs range at Lüneburg.
- 1949 - Rogers and Hammerstein's play South Pacific opens at Majestic Theater in New York (for 1928 performances).
- 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
- 1954 - US President Dwight Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China.
- 1957 - Last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run.
- 1959 - Oklahoma ends alcohol prohibition, after 51 years.
- 1959 - Radar first bounced off sun, from Stanford, California.
- 1964 - IBM introduces the IBM System/360 mainframe computer.
- 1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor.
- 1967 - Tom Donahue, San Francisco disc jockey, begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM).
- 1969 - US Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
- 1970 - 42nd Academy Awards - Midnight Cowboy, John Wayne and Maggie Smith win.
- 1971 - US President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free.
- 1971 - WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting three-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals.
- 1977 - Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical "TRIS".
- 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb.
- 1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions.
- 1983 - STS-6: Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts Story Musgrave and Donald H. Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
- 1987 - National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington, DC.
- 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1990 - John Poindexter (US National Security Advisor) is found guilty of five charges for his part in the Iran Contra scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
- 1998 - Citicorp and Travelers Group announce plans to merge, creating the largest financial-services conglomerate in the world, Citigroup.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 - In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the US Mint launches the 47th coin in the 50 State Quarters Program, the 2008 circulating New Mexico quarter dollar coin.
- 2008 - The 92nd annual Pullitzer Prize Awards are announced by Columbia University. Some award recipients:
- Breaking News: the Washington Post for its coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre;
- Public Service Journalism: the Washington Post for exposing the poor hospital treatment of US soldiers returning home after being wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan;
- Breaking News Photography: Reuters news agency for its picture of a Japanese videographer killed during last year's demonstrations in Burma;
- National reporting: the Washington Post;
- International Reporting: the Washington Post;
- Feature Writing: the Washington Post;
- Commentary: the Washington Post;
- Investigative Reporting: the New York Times;
- Explanatory Reporting: the New York Times.
Births on April 7
- 1915 - Birth of Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer ("Ain't Nobody's Business").
- 1917 - Birth of R G Armstrong in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; actor (T.H.E. Cat).
- 1918 - Birth of Peanuts Hucko in Syracuse, New York, USA; dixieland clarinetist (The Lawrence Welk Show).
- 1919 - Birth of Ralph Flanagan in Loraine, Ohio, USA; orchestra leader ("Let's Dance").
- 1924 - Birth of Nick Perito in Denver, Colorado, USA; orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show).
- 1931 - Birth of Donald Barthelme in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; writer (Snow White, Sadness).
- 1932 - Birth of Louis "Mr Bo" Collins in Indianola, Mississippi, USA; blues singer ("If Trouble Was Money").
- 1933 - Birth of Wayne Rogers in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; actor (MASH, House Calls, Chiefs).
- 1935 - Birth of Bobby Bare in Irontown, Ohio, USA; country singer (Detroit City).
- 1937 - Birth of [Big] Charlie Thomas in New York City, New York, USA; jazz/rock singer (Drifters).
- 1938 - Birth of Freddie Hubbard in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey).
- 1938 - Birth of Yvonne Lime in Glendale, California, USA; actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis).
- 1938 - Birth of [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr in San Francisco, California, USA; American politician (Governor-Democrat-California, 1975-83).
- 1939 - Birth of Francis Ford Coppola in Detroit, Michigan, USA; film maker (Godfather, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti).
- 1943 - Birth of Roberta Shore [Schourup] in Monterey Park, California, USA; actress/singer (Virginian).
- 1943 - Birth of Spencer Dryden in New York City, New York, USA; rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane - "Go Ask Alice").
- 1946 - Birth of Bill Kreutzmann in Palo Alto, California, USA; drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots).
- 1949 - Birth of John Oates in New York City, New York, USA; guitarist/vocalist (Hall and Oates - "Rich Girl").
- 1951 - Birth of Janis Ian [Janis Eddy Fink] in New York City, New York, USA; folk singer (Society's Child, At 17).
- 1951 - Birth of John Dittrich in Union, New Jersey, USA; country singer (Restless Heart - "Wheels").
- 1952 - Birth of Bruce Gary in Burbank, California, USA; rock drummer (The Knack - "My Sharona").
- 1958 - Birth of Alexandra Neil in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Rose - Guiding Light).
- 1962 - Birth of Andy Hampsten in Columbus, Ohio, USA; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1962 - Birth of Bonny Warner in Mount Baldy, California, USA; lugist.
- 1964 - Birth of Joe Durant in Pensacola, Florida, USA; Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th).
- 1966 - Birth of Teri Ann Linn in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; actress (Kristen - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1968 - Birth of Don[ald] Smith in North Tonawanda, New York, USA; rower (Olympics-5th-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Clark Sheehan in Denver, Colorado, USA; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Peggy Clasen in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1969 - Birth of Ricky Bones in Salinas, Puerto Rico; pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees).
- 1971 - Birth of Cara Kendra Bernosky; Miss Pennsylvania-USA (1997).
- 1971 - Birth of Mark Thompson in Russellville, Kentucky, USA; pitcher (Colorado Rockies).
- 1972 - Birth of Shana Williams in Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA; long jumper/heptathlete.
- 1982 - Birth of Sonjay Dutt; Indian American professional wrestler.
Deaths on April 7
- 1932 - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd.
- 1934 - William Monroe Trotter, civil rights activist/journalist, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1981 - Death of Norman Taurog, American film director (born 1899).
- 1984 - Frank Church, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at age 59.
- 1987 - Maxine Sullivan [Williams], American actress (Going Places), dies at age 75.
- 1992 - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at age 72.
- 1994 - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at age 85 in Leverkusen, Germany (born 1909).
- 2001 - Death of David Graf, American actor (born 1950).
- 2001 - Death of Beatrice Straight, American actress (born 1914).
- 2007 - Death of Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (born 1931).
- 2007 - Death of Barry Nelson, American actor (born 1920).
- 2007 - Death of Carey W. Barber, Jehovah's Witnesses leader (born 1905).
- 2009 - Death of Samuel Beer at age 97; chairman of political science department at Harvard University, author of British Politics in the Collectivist Age, speech-writer for President Franklin Roosevelt.
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