April 7 Historical Events
The following events took place on April 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 63 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1943The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
- 1943Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
- 1945World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
- 1945World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1946Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1948The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1948A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
- 1954United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
- 1955Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1956Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
- 1964IBM announces the System/360.
- 1967Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
- 1968Motor racing world champion Jim Clark was killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
- 1969The Internet’s symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
- 1971President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- 1976Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
- 1977German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1978Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1980The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- 1983During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
- 1985Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
- 1989Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
- 1990Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
- 1990A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
- 1992Republika Srpska announces its independence.
- 1994Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 1994Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
- 1995First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 1999The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- 2001Mars Odyssey is launched.
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