Sunday, April 7, 2013

This will be 97th day of the year and 268 days will remain in the year.


April 7 Birthdays

William Wordsworth
1770–1850, English poet, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland.

Billie Holiday
singer (1915)

 Ravi Shankar
sitarist and composer (1920)

 Francis Ford Coppola
filmmaker (1939)

 Gerhard Schröder
chancellor of Germany (1944)

 Jackie Chan
actor (1954)

 Russell Crowe
actor (1964)

April 7 in History

1862

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.

1913

5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.

1927

U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.

1948

The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.

1949

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.

1994

Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.

2003

Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.

2009

Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.

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