Events on April 7 60
Year 529
First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
Year 611
Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
Year 1141
Empress Matilda became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
Year 1724
Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
Year 1788
American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
Year 1798
The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
Year 1805
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
Year 1805
German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
Year 1827
John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
Year 1829
Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
Year 1831
Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
Year 1862
American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
Year 1868
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
Year 1908
H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
Year 1922
The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
Year 1927
The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
Year 1933
Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States of America)
Year 1940
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Year 1943
The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
Year 1943
Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
Year 1945
World War II: The Yamato, one of the two largest battleships ever constructed, is sunk by American aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
Year 1945
World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
Year 1949
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
Year 1954
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
Year 1955
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
Year 1964
A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
Year 1968
Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
Year 1971
President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
Year 1976
Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
Year 1977
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
Year 1983
During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
Year 1989
Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
Year 1990
Iran-Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
Year 1994
Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
Year 1995
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
Year 1999
The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
Year 2009
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
Year 2009
Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
Year 2017
2017 Stockholm attack happened on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden. A stolen truck slams into people at high speed, killing five and injuring fifteen others.