SomeFacts | April 7

On this day - April 7

451 — Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its ...

529 — First Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in ...

1141 — Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, ...

1348 — Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.

1449 — Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of ...

1521 — Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

1541 — Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese ...

1724 — Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, ...

1767 — End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767).

1788 — Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent ...

1790 — Russo-Turkish war (1787–1792): Greek privateer Lambros ...

1795 — The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its ...

1798 — The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory ...

1805 — German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third ...

1805 — Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp ...

1824 — The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, ...

1831 — Pedro II becomes Emperor of Empire of Brazil.

1862 — American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and ...

1868 — Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of ...

1906 — The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over ...

1906 — Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1922 — Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior ...

1926 — Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister ...

1927 — AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first ...

1933 — Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the ...

1933 — Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no ...

1939 — Benito Mussolini invades Albania.

1939 — Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania ...

1940 — Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be ...

1943 — The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.

1943 — Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of ...

1943 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 ...

1944 — In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German ...

1945 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, ...

1946 — The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad ...

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

1954 — United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his ...

1955 — Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United ...

1956 — Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in ...

1964 — IBM announces the System/360.

1965 — Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians ...

1968 — Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in ...

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

1971 — Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to ...

1972 — Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese ...

1976 — Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns ...

1977 — German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are ...

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

1980 — During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs ...

1982 — Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.

1983 — During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson ...

1988 — Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet ...

1989 — Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the ...

1990 — John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra ...

1990 — A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, ...

1994 — Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 ...

1994 — Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, ...

1995 — First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a ...

1999 — Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern ...

2001 — NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

2003 — Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations ...

2003 — Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's ...

2005 — First release of Git distributed version control system.

2009 — Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that ...

2009 — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 ...

2011 — A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, ...

2011 — The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system ...

2017 — U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile ...

2017 — A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of ...

2018 — Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern ...

2018 — Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is ...

2020 — COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly ...

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

2021 — COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and ...

2022 — Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of ...