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07 April, 2003
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Husseins regime falls two days later.
07 April, 2001
Mars Odyssey is launched.
07 April, 1999
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
07 April, 1994
Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
07 April, 1992
Republika Srpska announces its independence.
07 April, 1990
Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).
07 April, 1989
Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
07 April, 1985
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
07 April, 1983
During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
07 April, 1978
Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
07 April, 1977
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
07 April, 1976
Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party, leaving Prime Minister James Callaghan in power.
07 April, 1971
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
07 April, 1969
The Internets symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
07 April, 1964
IBM announces the System/360.
07 April, 1963
Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
07 April, 1956
Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
07 April, 1954
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
07 April, 1948
The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
07 April, 1948
Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
07 April, 1946
Syrias independence from France is officially recognised.
07 April, 1945
World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route on a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
07 April, 1945
World War II: Visoko was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
07 April, 1943
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. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches.
07 April, 1940
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
07 April, 1939
World War II: Italy invades Albania.
07 April, 1933
Prohibition was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of XXI amendment.
07 April, 1927
First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
07 April, 1922
Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
07 April, 1908
H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
07 April, 1906
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
07 April, 1906
The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
07 April, 1890
Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
07 April, 1868
Thomas DArcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, the only one at the federal level.
07 April, 1862
American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
07 April, 1829
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
07 April, 1827
John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it in the previous year.
07 April, 1805
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
07 April, 1805
First public performance of Beethovens Third Symphony (Eroica).
07 April, 1798
The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.
07 April, 1795
France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
07 April, 1541
Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
07 April, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
07 April, 1348
Charles University is founded in Prague.
07 April, 529
First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

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