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Historical Events

07 Apr 1118
Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V Holy Roman Emperor
07 Apr 1348
Prague University first university in central Europe formed by Charles IV
07 Apr 1456
Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
07 Apr 1498
Crowd storms Savonarolas convent San Marco Florence Italy
07 Apr 1521
Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
07 Apr 1541
Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies
07 Apr 1625
Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
07 Apr 1645
Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
07 Apr 1652
Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town South Africa
07 Apr 1655
Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
07 Apr 1712
Slave revolt in New York kills 6 white men 21 African Americans executed
07 Apr 1739
Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
07 Apr 1776
Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward
07 Apr 1795
France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length
07 Apr 1827
English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
07 Apr 1831
Dom Pedro abdicates to son Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
07 Apr 1860
Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
07 Apr 1862
Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh Tenn Island 10 falls
07 Apr 1863
Battle of Charleston South Carolina failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
07 Apr 1868
Thomas DArcy McGee one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish in one of the few Canadian political assassinations and only federal politician
07 Apr 1888
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Yellow Face (BG)
07 Apr 1890
Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal Japan
07 Apr 1896
American athlete Robert Garrett wins the throwing double at the Athens Olympics by taking out the shot putt (11.22m) wins the discus the previous day
07 Apr 1901
SDAP demands general voting right abolishing First Chamber
07 Apr 1906
The worlds 1st animated cartoon Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton is released
07 Apr 1906
Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
07 Apr 1917
De Fallas ballet El Sombrero de tres Picos premieres in Madrid
07 Apr 1917
James Barries Old Lady Shows Her premieres in London
07 Apr 1919
1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
07 Apr 1923
1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
07 Apr 1923
Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
07 Apr 1926
Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
07 Apr 1927
Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to NYC
07 Apr 1928
44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
07 Apr 1933
1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws bars Jews from legal & public service
07 Apr 1933
National Beer Day Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
07 Apr 1940
7th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Jimmy Demaret wins the first of his 3 Masters titles 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Lloyd Mangrum
07 Apr 1940
US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American educator Book T. Washington
07 Apr 1941
British generals OConnor & Neame captured in North Africa
07 Apr 1943
British and US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit South-Tunisia
07 Apr 1943
Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
07 Apr 1945
1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
07 Apr 1945
US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission super battleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk
07 Apr 1946
10th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC American Herman Keiser wins his only major title 1 stroke ahead of tour money-leader Ben Hogan first Masters in 4 years because of World War II
07 Apr 1946
Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
07 Apr 1946
Syrias independence from France is officially recognised.
07 Apr 1948
World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
07 Apr 1948
A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai China leaving twenty monks dead.
07 Apr 1949
South Pacific opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
07 Apr 1951
American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
07 Apr 1951
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
07 Apr 1951
105th Grand National John Bullock wins aboard 401 shot Nickel Coin of 36 runners only 3 complete the course
07 Apr 1953
1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
07 Apr 1953
UN General Assembly begins session that will elect Dag Hammarskjld of Sweden as Secretary-General
07 Apr 1954
WALB TV channel 10 in Albany GA (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
07 Apr 1956
10th NBA Championship Philadelphia Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons 4 games to 1
07 Apr 1956
Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
07 Apr 1957
21st US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Doug Ford wins his only Masters 3 strokes ahead of 3-time champion Sam Snead
07 Apr 1957
Last of NYs electric trolleys completes its final run
07 Apr 1958
Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs since it is only 250 feet down the line
07 Apr 1962
Umrigar slams 172 v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
07 Apr 1962
Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
07 Apr 1963
27th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC 23 year old Jack Nicklaus wins the first of his record 6 Green Jackets with a 3-foot par putt on the final hole to finish 1 stroke ahead of Tony Lema
07 Apr 1963
Public stock offering of 115000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13000 shares are sold to 1600 new investors
07 Apr 1965
Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
07 Apr 1966
US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops)
07 Apr 1967
Tom Donahue San Francisco DJ begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
07 Apr 1969
Dodgers Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save against Reds
07 Apr 1969
Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
07 Apr 1969
The Internets symbolic birth date publication of RFC 1
07 Apr 1970
Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds premieres in NYC
07 Apr 1970
Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game lose to Angels 12-0
07 Apr 1971
Dismissal of Curt Floods suit against baseball is upheld by
07 Apr 1971
WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville FL (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
07 Apr 1972
Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
07 Apr 1973
Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74420
07 Apr 1973
Doug Walters best Test Cricket bowling 5-66 v WI Georgetown
07 Apr 1973
18th Eurovision Song Contest Anne-Marie David for Luxembourg wins singing Tu te reconnaitras in Luxembourg
07 Apr 1975
Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting oil-importing and non-oil Third World countries
07 Apr 1977
Consumer Product Safety Comn bans TRIS flame-retardant
07 Apr 1977
Toronto Blue Jays 1st game they beat Chicago 9-5
07 Apr 1977
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
07 Apr 1978
Guttenberg bible sells for 2000000 in New York City
07 Apr 1978
US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhns voiding of attempted player sales by As owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
07 Apr 1979
Henri La Mothe dives 28 into 12 38 of water
07 Apr 1979
Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves 6-0
07 Apr 1980
Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
07 Apr 1981
Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit in 29 sec
07 Apr 1982
Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
07 Apr 1983
Oldest human skeleton aged 80000 years discovered in Egypt
07 Apr 1983
STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
07 Apr 1983
WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas attracts 75480 women bowlers for 83-day event
07 Apr 1984
Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox 4-0
07 Apr 1985
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (5) to win her only major title 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
07 Apr 1985
1st live telecast of Easter Parade in New York
07 Apr 1985
New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
07 Apr 1987
National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington D.C.
07 Apr 1987
Al Campanis Dodger executive for more than 40 years resigns after making racial remarks on Nightline
07 Apr 1988
Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns Ferdi Elsas arrested in the Netherland
07 Apr 1988
Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
07 Apr 1989
Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea with about a dozen deaths
07 Apr 1989
NY Supreme Court takes Americas Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
07 Apr 1990
John Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
07 Apr 1990
Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
07 Apr 1990
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2 Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
07 Apr 1990
Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway in an unrelated event 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
07 Apr 1990
144th Grand National Marcus Armytage aboard 161 bet Mr Frisk wins in race record 8m 47.8s 2 equine fatalities during the race
07 Apr 1991
Big Love closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
07 Apr 1991
Shadowlands closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances
07 Apr 1991
Christa Johnson wins LPGA PingWelchs Golf Championship
07 Apr 1991
George Washington Bridge raises toll from 3.00 to 4.00
07 Apr 1991
Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA actually performed 0324
07 Apr 1992
Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
07 Apr 1993
Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
07 Apr 1994
Medea opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
07 Apr 1994
1st night game at Clevelands Jacobs Field Indians 6 Seattle 2
07 Apr 1994
Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
07 Apr 1994
Vatican commemorates The Holocaust for the first time with an orchestral concert in the Sala Nervi
07 Apr 1995
Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
07 Apr 1996
Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
07 Apr 1996
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
07 Apr 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
07 Apr 1997
150th Grand National Tony Dobbin aboard New Zealand bred Lord Gyllene wins at 141 by 25 lengths race postponed 2 days because of IRA bomb threat
07 Apr 1999
The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
07 Apr 2000
South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged by Delhi police with fixing One Day International matches against India
07 Apr 2001
154th Grand National Richard Guest wins aboard Red Marauder trainer Martin Pipe saddles 10 of 40-strong field Blowing Wind best at 3rd place
07 Apr 2003
37th CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Toby Keith & Martina McBride win
07 Apr 2003
65th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Syracuse beats Kansas 81-78
07 Apr 2005
The Head of government of the Federal District Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
07 Apr 2008
70th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kansas beats Memphis 75-68
07 Apr 2009
28th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Louisville 76-54
07 Apr 2012
130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
07 Apr 2013
15 people including 9 children are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
07 Apr 2013
Sweden wins the World Mens Curling Championship defeating Canada
07 Apr 2013
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Inbee Park wins her 2nd major title 4 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean So Yeon Ryu first of Parks 3 straight major victories in
07 Apr 2014
76th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Kentucky 60-54
07 Apr 2015
34th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Notre Dame 63-53
07 Apr 2016
Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft8m)
07 Apr 2017
Truck driven into a department store in Stockholm killing 4 in a terror attack
07 Apr 2018
Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500
07 Apr 2018
Canadian Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team involved in a bus crash outside Tisdale Saskatchewan that kills 16
07 Apr 1945
Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan after the US invasion of Okinawa he is replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
07 Apr 1945
Battle of Okinawa Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island
07 Apr 1945
Sonderkommando Elbe special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air are sent on their first and only mission of World War II
07 Apr 1945
Battle of Okinawa US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
07 Apr 1951
15th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Ben Hogan wins the first of his 2 Masters titles 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Skee Riegel
07 Apr 1996
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf GC at Desert Mountain Defending champion Jack Nicklaus wins his 4th event title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwin
07 Apr 2003
65th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Syracuse beats Kansas 81-78 Orangemen win first title Carmelo Anthony named tournament Most Outstanding Player
07 Apr 2008
70th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kansas beats Memphis 75-68 first time since seeding began all 4 top seeds advance to the Final Four
07 Apr 2009
28th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Louisville 76-54 Huskies 6th national title with center Tina Charles MOP
07 Apr 2014
76th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Kentucky 60-54 2nd time a school has won both mens & womens Div I national titles in same year
07 Apr 2015
34th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Notre Dame 63-53 Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis & Moriah Jefferson 15 points for Huskies
07 Apr 2018
Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks & Florida Panthers 1993-94
07 Apr 2019
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South Koran Lee Mi-hyang
07 Apr 1118
Pope Gelasius II excommunicated by Henry V Holy Roman Emperor
07 Apr 1966
US recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor (whoops)
07 Apr 1970
MLB Milwaukee Brewers (former Seattle Pilots) 1st game lose to Angels 12-0
07 Apr 1978
US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Bowie Kuhns voiding of attempted player sales by As owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
07 Apr 1917
J.M. Barries play Old Lady Shows Her premieres in London
07 Apr 1928
44-year old NY Rangers GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 in OT Rangers go on to win series 3-2
07 Apr 1943
NFL adopts free substitution rule helmets made mandatory and 10-game schedule for all teams approved
07 Apr 1956
10th NBA Championship Despite 30 points from Pistons forward George Yardley Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne 99-88 Warriors wrap up series 4-1
07 Apr 1962
Indian cricketer Polly Umrigar slams 172 not out vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
07 Apr 1971
Dismissal of Curt Floods free agency suit against baseball is upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [1]
07 Apr 1977
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot dead by two Red Army Faction members starting the German Autumn
07 Apr 1979
Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves 6-0 decoming with his brother Bob the only MLB siblings to accomplish the feat
07 Apr 1985
New Jersey General Hershel Walker rushes for USFL record 233 yards
07 Apr 1988
Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns Ferdi Elsas arrested in the Netherlands
07 Apr 1990
John Poindexter (US National Security Advisor) found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress and obstruction regarding the Iran-Contra scandal
07 Apr 1991
Shadowlands closes at Brooks Atkinson Theatre NYC after 169 performances
07 Apr 1991
George Washington Bridge (connecting New York City with Fort Lee New Jersey over the Hudson River) raises toll from 3.00 to 4.00
07 Apr 1996
Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to win Crickets Singer Cup in Singapore
07 Apr 2017
Smurfs The Lost Village is released in the United States
07 Apr 2017
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Joan Baez Electric Light Orchestra Journey Pearl Jam 2Pac Shakur Yes and Nile Rodgers
07 Apr 1118
Pope Gelasius II excommunicated by Henry V Holy Roman Emperor forcing him to flee Rome and rule in exile
07 Apr 1824
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethovens Missa Solemnis in St. Petersburg Russia
07 Apr 1831
Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro abdicates leaving his six-year old son Dom Pedro II head of state as Prince Imperial
07 Apr 1917
J.M. Barries play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals premieres in London
07 Apr 1917
Manuel de Fallas ballet El Sombrero de tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) premieres at Teatro Eslava in Madrid Spain
07 Apr 1943
German Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
07 Apr 1977
Consumer Product Safety Commission bans TRIS flame-retardant
07 Apr 1977
MLB Toronto Blue Jays 1st game they beat Chicago 9-5
07 Apr 1980
US President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
07 Apr 1983
STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson perform the 1st STS spacewalk
07 Apr 1991
Brooke Allens stage drama The Big Love a one-woman show starring Tracey Ullman closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
07 Apr 1994
American soul singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
07 Apr 1999
The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
07 Apr 2000
1st regular season MLB game at Enron Field (now Minute Maid Park) in Houston Texas visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 4-1 Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen hits first homer at new park
07 Apr 1827
English chemist John Walker sells the worlds first friction matches for 1s 2d (6 new pence) per 100 matches in a tin case with a piece of sandpaper [1]
07 Apr 1948
World Health Organization is formed by the United Nations
07 Apr 1956
France officially relinquished its protectorate in Morocco. Spain follows suit for regions of her protectorate in northern Morocco
07 Apr 1964
IBM announces the System360 mainframe computer
07 Apr 1994
American soul singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion receives sentence of six months in a halfway house five years of probation and ordered to pay 96000 in back taxes and penalties
07 Apr 2016
Longest-ever captured python found on Penang Island in Malaysia (26ft8m)
07 Apr 2019
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South Korean Lee Mi-hyang
07 Apr 2019
Rebel force the Libyan National Army under General Khalifa Haftar begins advancing on Tripoli with 21 killed and 27 injured over next few days as they try to take the capital
07 Apr 2019
Rwanda marks 25 years and the beginning of 100 days of mourning since the genocide that killed 800000 people
07 Apr 2019
US President Donald Trump announces Kirstjen Nielsen Secretary of Homeland Security is leaving her position
07 Apr 2020
Australias highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell
07 Apr 2020
China ends its lockdown of Wuhan the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
07 Apr 2020
US Acting-Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns after calling USN Capt. Brett Crozier of aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) too naive and too stupid in an address to the ships crew
07 Apr 2020
Wisconsin holds its Democratic primary with in-person voting in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic after a mail-in voting rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature
07 Apr 2021
UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC as 108 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose [1]
07 Apr 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the US Senate to the Supreme Court in 53-47 vote [1]
07 Apr 2022
MLB Cleveland Guardians lose in first game under their new name 3-1 to the Royals in Kansas City
07 Apr 2022
Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi transfers power to an eight-member council to negotiate with the Houthis in attempt to end countrys seven-year civil war [1]
07 Apr 2023
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspends Food and Drug Administrations approval of key abortion pill mifepristone leading to US government request for legal appeal to stop nationwide ban [1]
07 Apr 1456
Louis de Bourbon becomes Prince-Bishop of Lige
07 Apr 1712
Slave revolt in New York City Just after midnight 9 slaveowners are killed and 6 wounded by a group of about two dozen slaves attempting to lead a revolt at least 21 enslaved Africans were executed and another half dozen committed suicide [1] [2]
07 Apr 1831
Prince Imperial Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil at age 5 upon his fathers abrupt abdication and departure to Europe
07 Apr 1956
France officially relinquished its protectorate in Morocco Spain follows suit for regions of her protectorate in northern Morocco
07 Apr 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
07 Apr 2024
British charity fundraiser Russ Cook the Hardest Geezer runs the length of Africa arriving at Ras Angela Tunisia almost a year after setting off from Cape Agulhas South Africa [1]
07 Apr 1645
Michael Cardozo becomes the first Jewish lawyer in Brazil
07 Apr 1739
Dick Turpin is executed in England for horse stealing
07 Apr 1788
First settlement in Ohio is established at Marietta
07 Apr 1824
First performance of Ludwig van Beethovens Missa Solemnis in St. Petersburg Russia
07 Apr 1860
Grand Duke Frederick I liberalizes laws in Baden
07 Apr 1919
First parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
07 Apr 1933
National Beer Day Cullen-Harrison Act comes into effect legalizing the sale of low-alcohol beer
07 Apr 1951
American Bowling Congress begins first Masters Tournament
07 Apr 1959
Radar first bounces off the Sun in Stanford California
07 Apr 1985
First live telecast of the Easter Parade in New York
07 Apr 1993
Dante Bichette hits the first Colorado Rockies home run at Shea Stadium in New York
07 Apr 1994
First night game at Clevelands Jacobs Field Indians 6 Mariners 2
07 Apr 2000
1st regular season MLB game at Enron Field (now Daikin Park) in Houston Texas visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 4-1 Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen hits first homer at new park
07 Apr 2023
Fake jury trial reality television series Jury Duty created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky stars Ronald Gladden as himself who is unaware of the hoax alongside James Marsden and Mekki Leeper as jurors premieres on Amazon Freevee [1]
07 Apr 2025
Asia-Pacific stock markets have their biggest falls in a decade after US President Trump announced tariffs between 10% and 46% [1]