Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Wed Apr 07 2021 12:05 pm
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/07/1506 Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
04/07/1534 Jos� de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
04/07/1613 Gerard Dou, painter (Night School)
04/07/1622 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
04/07/1629 Juan Jos�, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
04/07/1648 Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
04/07/1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
04/07/1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
04/07/1727 Henri Hardouin, composer
04/07/1727 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of S�n�gal
04/07/1745 Georg Druschetzky, composer
04/07/1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
04/07/1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
04/07/1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
04/07/1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
04/07/1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
04/07/1775 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
04/07/1780 William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
04/07/1786 William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
04/07/1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
04/07/1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1869
04/07/1819 Hubert Leonard, composer
04/07/1820 Gy�rgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader (Kom�rom-castle)
04/07/1822 Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
04/07/1826 Johann Hermann Berens, composer
04/07/1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
04/07/1858 Adrien H Gerhard, SDAP-politician
04/07/1859 Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
04/07/1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
04/07/1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to
04/07/1870 Gustav Landauer, German socialist
04/07/1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
04/07/1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African
04/07/1878 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
04/07/1882 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
04/07/1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
04/07/1884 Louis HN Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
04/07/1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci�n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945)
04/07/1893 Allan W Dulles, US politician
04/07/1894 Gerald Brenan, English writer
04/07/1895 Eduardo Toldra, composer
04/07/1896 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
04/07/1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer
04/07/1897 Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
04/07/1899 Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Di�mer)
04/07/1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
04/07/1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen R�ssl)
04/07/1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
04/07/1908 Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
04/07/1912 Val�re Depauw, Flemish writer
04/07/1915 Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Busines
04/07/1915 Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
04/07/1917 R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
04/07/1918 Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Sho
04/07/1918 Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], radio actor (Shoot Out)
04/07/1918 Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Styl
04/07/1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, �p�e (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/07/1919 Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance)
04/07/1920 Gino Marinuzzi, composer
04/07/1920 Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
04/07/1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
04/07/1924 Ikuma Dan, composer
04/07/1924 Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
04/07/1926 Johannes Rood, immunologist (Eurotransplant)
04/07/1928 Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
04/07/1928 James Garner, Norman Okla, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
04/07/1928 James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
04/07/1930 Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
04/07/1931 Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon whistleblower, patriot
04/07/1931 Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
04/07/1933 Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
04/07/1934 Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
04/07/1935 Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
04/07/1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
04/07/1938 Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
04/07/1938 Yvonne Lime, Glendale Calif, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gilli
04/07/1938 [Edmund] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend
04/07/1939 David Frost, Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
04/07/1939 Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
04/07/1939 Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
04/07/1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
04/07/1940 Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
04/07/1943 Mick Abrahams, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
04/07/1943 Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian)
04/07/1943 Spencer Dryden, rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
04/07/1946 Barbara Benary, composer
04/07/1946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer (Grateful Dead-Touch of Grey)
04/07/1947 Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
04/07/1950 Janis Ian, [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17)
04/07/1951 John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
04/07/1952 Bruce Gary, drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
04/07/1952 Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
04/07/1953 Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/07/1954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
04/07/1958 Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
04/07/1958 Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
04/07/1960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
04/07/1962 Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy Calif, lugist
04/07/1966 Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
04/07/1969 Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
04/07/1975 Beverly Peele, model
Deaths:
04/07/ 30 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer
04/07/ 924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
04/07/1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies
04/07/1524 Philip van Bourgondie, bishop of Utrecht, dies
04/07/1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown
04/07/1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
04/07/1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, classical musician, dies at 81
04/07/1767 Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
04/07/1768 Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
04/07/1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
04/07/1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
04/07/1789 Abd�l-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64
04/07/1789 Peter Camper, gene/animal scholar, dies at 59
04/07/1803 [Fran�ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, dies
04/07/1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, politician/patriot, dies at 61
04/07/1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
04/07/1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies
04/07/1858 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
04/07/1862 Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
04/07/1871 Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
04/07/1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies
04/07/1877 Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
04/07/1880 Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican rep of people, dies at 65
04/07/1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
04/07/1891 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey, dies at 88
04/07/1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
04/07/1932 Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
04/07/1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
04/07/1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blauwe legends), dies
04/07/1958 Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
04/07/1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
04/07/1961 Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
04/07/1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
04/07/1961 Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
04/07/1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
04/07/1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies
04/07/1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
04/07/1972 'Crazy' Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
04/07/1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
04/07/1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 7
04/07/1977 Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered
04/07/1978 Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
04/07/1982 Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at
04/07/1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
04/07/1984 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
04/07/1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
04/07/1988 Cesar Bresgen, composer, dies at 74
04/07/1992 Clovis Ruffin, designer, dies at 46 of AIDs
04/07/1993 Max Croiset, actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
04/07/1994 Angelus Gottfried 'Golo' Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
04/07/1994 Evert Hartman, writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
04/07/1994 Fran�ois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
04/07/1994 Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
04/07/1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
Significant Events:
04/07/ 30 Scholars' reckon Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
04/07/ 451 Attila's Hunnen plunder Metz
04/07/1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
04/07/1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
04/07/1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
04/07/1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
04/07/1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
04/07/1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
04/07/1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
04/07/1712 Slave revolt (NYC)
04/07/1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
04/07/1798 Territory of Mississippi organized
04/07/1805 Premiere of Beethovens 'Eroica'
04/07/1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
04/07/1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
04/07/1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
04/07/1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn
04/07/1862 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #73 Klytia
04/07/1862 Island #10 falls after long siege, Battle of Shiloh
04/07/1863 Battle of Charleston SC
04/07/1863 Failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter, SC
04/07/1865 Battle of Farmville VA
04/07/1880 V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone
04/07/1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure 'Yellow Face' (BG)
04/07/1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
04/07/1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
04/07/1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
04/07/1922 Naval Reserve #3, 'Teapot Dome,' leased to Harry F Sinclair
04/07/1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
04/07/1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif)
04/07/1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
04/07/1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
04/07/1931 Seals Stadium opens in SF
04/07/1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
04/07/1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
04/07/1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
04/07/1939 Italy annexes Albania
04/07/1940 Jimmy Demeret beats Lloyd Mangrum for the Masters
04/07/1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
04/07/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
04/07/1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air ra
04/07/1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
04/07/1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
04/07/1945 Kamikaze attack on fleet at Okinawa
04/07/1945 Task Force 58 sinks Jap large battleship Jamamoto (on suicide missio
04/07/1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
04/07/1948 Rogers & Hammerstein's 'South Pacific' opens on Broadway
04/07/1948 World Health Organization established by UN
04/07/1949 'South Pacific' opens at Majestic Theater (for 1925 performances)
04/07/1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
04/07/1951 Ben Hogan wins Masters golf tournament
04/07/1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
04/07/1953 Dag Hammarskj�ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
04/07/1953 J A Brouwer discovers asteroid #1660 Wood
04/07/1953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2214 Carol, 2278, 2652 Yabuuti & 2806
04/07/1954 German govt refuses to recognize DDR
04/07/1954 Pres Eisenhower fears 'domino-effect' in Indo-China
04/07/1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
04/07/1956 Philadelphia beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship
04/07/1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
04/07/1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
04/07/1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
04/07/1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
04/07/1963 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st Masters golf tournament
04/07/1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
04/07/1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
04/07/1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
04/07/1967 Progressive Rock radio begins-KMPX-FM, San Francisco
04/07/1970 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen
04/07/1971 Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
04/07/1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
04/07/1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
04/07/1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans 'TRIS' flame-retardant
04/07/1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
04/07/1978 Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
04/07/1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8' of water
04/07/1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
04/07/1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
04/07/1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
04/07/1981 Belgium Eyskens govt forms
04/07/1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
04/07/1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
04/07/1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
04/07/1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
04/07/1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
04/07/1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
04/07/1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
04/07/1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
04/07/1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
04/07/1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
04/07/1990 Farm Aid IV concert
04/07/1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scand
04/07/1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
04/07/1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
04/07/1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
04/07/1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
04/07/1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
04/07/1994 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
04/07/1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
04/07/1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust for 1st time (Nazis killing Jews)
04/07/1994 Vatican for 1st time ever commemorates Nazi murder of Jews in WW II
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