Editing April 7 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts and devastates [[Naples]].
*  1906   &ndash; The [[Algeciras Conference]] gives France and Spain control over [[Morocco]].
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Teapot Dome scandal]]: United States Secretary of the Interior [[Albert B. Fall]] [[Teapot Dome scandal|leases]] federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Violet Gibson]] attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister [[Benito Mussolini]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-02-21|title=Violet Gibson - The Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56111443|access-date=2022-01-10}}</ref> 
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]] engineer [[Herbert Ives]] transmits the first long-distance public [[television broadcast]] (from [[Washington, D.C.]], to [[New York City]], displaying the image of [[Commerce Secretary]] [[Herbert Hoover]]).<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Board Tests Television Process. Finds Demonstration Satisfactory and Will Keep Top Air Band for It  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/04/28/archives/radio-board-tests-television-process-finds-demonstration.html |quote=A demonstration of television was given here today for the benefit of [[Admiral Bullard]] and the other members of the Radio Commission by Dr. Herbert E. Ives, inventor of an American process, and Dr. [[Frank B. Jewett]], Vice President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ...|newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=April 28, 1927 |access-date=2014-01-11 }}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Prohibition in the United States]] is repealed for [[beer]] of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution]]. (Now  celebrated as [[National Beer Day (United States)|National Beer Day]] in the [[United States]].)
*  1933   &ndash; [[Nazi Germany]] issues the [[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]] banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|url=https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938/law-for-the-restoration-of-the-professional-civil-service|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.ushmm.org}}</ref> 
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Benito Mussolini]] declares an [[Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)|Italian protectorate]] over [[Albania]] and forces King [[Zog I of Albania|Zog I]] into exile.<ref name="On This Day">{{Britannica URL|title=On This Day - What Happened on April 7 |url=on-this-day/April-7}}</ref> 
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Benito Mussolini]] [[Italian invasion of Albania|invades Albania]].<ref name="On This Day"/> 
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Booker T. Washington]] becomes the first [[African American]] to be depicted on a [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States|United States postage stamp]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust in Ukraine]]: In [[Terebovlia]], 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.
*  1943   &ndash; [[Ioannis Rallis]] becomes [[Collaborationism|collaborationist]] [[Prime Minister of Greece]] during the [[Axis occupation of Greece|Axis Occupation]].
*  1943   &ndash; The [[National Football League]] makes [[Football helmet|helmets]] mandatory.<ref>{{Cite web|last=PlexusGroupe|date=2014-04-08|title=Recalling when the NFL made helmets mandatory|url=https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/07/recalling-when-the-nfl-made-helmets-mandatory/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=ProFootballTalk|language=en-US}}</ref> 
*  [[1944]] &ndash; In the [[Fragheto massacre]], soldiers belonging to the German [[356th Infantry Division]] kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near [[Casteldelci]] in central-northern Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=6 April 2024 |title=7 aprile 1944 – 80 anni fa la strage di Fragheto |trans-title=7 April 1944 – 80 years ago, the Fragheto massacre |url=https://www.chiamamicitta.it/7-aprile-1944-80-anni-fa-la-strage-di-fragheto/ |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=Chiamami Città |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 April 2024 |title=Eccidio di Fragheto: Rimini presente alla commemorazione a 74 anni dalla strage |trans-title=Fragheto massacre: Rimini present at the commemoration 74 years after the massacre |url=https://www.comune.rimini.it/novita/eccidio-di-fragheto-rimini-presente-alla-commemorazione-74-anni-dalla-strage |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=Comune di Rimini}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=30 November 2011 |title=Eccidio di Fragheto, rinviati a giudizio 3 soldati tedeschi |trans-title=Fragheto massacre: 3 German soldiers sent to trial |url=https://www.riminitoday.it/cronaca/eccidio-di-fragheto-rinviati-a-giudizio-3-soldati-tedeschi.html |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=RiminiToday |language=it}}</ref> 
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] battleship ''[[Japanese battleship Yamato|Yamato]]'', one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by [[United States Navy]] aircraft during [[Operation Ten-Go]].
*[[1946]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union]] annexes [[East Prussia]] as the [[Kaliningrad Oblast]] of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) region formed in the RSFSR|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619151|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Presidential Library|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; The [[World Health Organization]] is established by the [[United Nations]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; United States President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] gives his "[[domino theory]]" speech during a news conference.
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] amid indications of failing health.
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Francoist Spain]] agrees to surrender its [[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|protectorate]] in [[Morocco]].<ref>{{Britannica URL|title=Morocco - The Spanish Zone |url=place/Morocco/The-Spanish-Zone}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[IBM]] announces the [[IBM System/360|System/360]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; Representatives of the [[National Congress of American Indians]] testify before members of the US Senate in [[Washington, D.C.]], against the termination of the [[Colville people|Colville]] tribe.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIsNAQAAMAAJ|title=The Native North American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada|last=Champagne|first=Duane|date=2001|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-1655-7|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; Two-time [[Formula One]] British [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Champion]] [[Jim Clark]] dies in an accident during a [[Formula Two]] race in [[Hockenheimring|Hockenheim]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Motorsport was left in disbelief when Jim Clark died 52 years ago today|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/motorsport-was-left-disbelief-when-jim-clark-died-52-years-ago-today-2531278|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.scotsman.com|date=7 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; The [[Internet]]'s symbolic birth date: Publication of [[Request for Comments|RFC]] 1.
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: President [[Richard Nixon]] announces his decision to quicken the pace of [[Vietnamization]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; Vietnam War: [[Vietcong|Communist forces]] [[Battle of Loc Ninh|overrun]] the South Vietnamese town of [[Lộc Ninh, Bình Phước|Loc Ninh]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Willbanks|first=James H.|title= The Battle of An Loc|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780253344816|page=51}}</ref> 
*[[1976]] &ndash; Member of Parliament and suspected spy [[John Stonehouse]] resigns from the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] after being arrested for [[Faked death|faking his own death]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; German Federal prosecutor [[Siegfried Buback]] and his driver are shot by two [[Red Army Faction]] members while waiting at a red light.
*[[1978]] &ndash; Development of the [[neutron bomb]] is canceled by President [[Jimmy Carter]].<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC ON THIS DAY <nowiki>|</nowiki> 7 April <nowiki>|</nowiki> 1978: Carter delays N-bomb production|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/7/newsid_2523000/2523051.stm|year=2008|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; During the [[Iran hostage crisis]], the United States severs relations with Iran. 
*[[1982]] &ndash; Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister [[Sadegh Ghotbzadeh]] is arrested.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1982-09-07|title=No Headline|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/world/no-headline-134559.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
*[[1983]] &ndash; During [[STS-6]], astronauts [[Story Musgrave]] and [[Donald H. Peterson|Don Peterson]] perform the first [[Space Shuttle]] spacewalk.
*[[1988]] &ndash; Soviet Defense Minister [[Dmitry Yazov]] orders the [[Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989 – 20 Years Later|url=https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB272/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=nsarchive2.gwu.edu}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets|Soviet submarine ''Komsomolets'']] sinks in the [[Barents Sea]] off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
*[[1990]] &ndash; A fire breaks out on the [[passenger ferry]] ''[[MS Scandinavian Star|Scandinavian Star]]'', killing 159 people.
*  1990   &ndash; [[John Poindexter]] is convicted for his role in the [[Iran–Contra affair]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CNN Transcript - Morning News: CNN 20: John Poindexter Convicted, April 7, 1990 - April 7, 2000|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/07/mn.12.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Rwandan genocide]]: Massacres of [[Tutsi]]s begin in [[Kigali]], Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister [[Agathe Uwilingiyimana]].<ref name="On This Day" /> 
*  1994   &ndash; Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy [[Federal Express Flight 705]] in order to allow his family to benefit from his [[life insurance]] policy.
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[First Chechen War]]: Russian paramilitary troops begin a [[Samashki massacre|massacre]] of civilians in [[Samashki]], [[Chechnya]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Turkish Airlines Flight 5904]] crashes near [[Ceyhan]] in southern Turkey, killing six people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Accident report TC – JEP (07.04.1999) |url=http://www.shgm.gov.tr/kaza/tcjep.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615143040/http://www.shgm.gov.tr/kaza/tcjep.htm |archive-date=2008-06-15 |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority |language=tr}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[NASA]] launches the [[2001 Mars Odyssey]] orbiter. 
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Iraq War]]: U.S. troops [[Battle of Baghdad (2003)|capture Baghdad]]; [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Ba'athist Iraq|Ba'athist regime]] falls two days later.
*2003 &ndash; Haitian president [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the [[Haiti Independence Debt]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Méheut |first=Constant |last2=Porter |first2=Catherine |last3=Gebrekidan |first3=Selam |last4=Apuzzo |first4=Matt |date=2022-05-20 |title=Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714100559/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html |archive-date=2024-07-14 |access-date=2024-08-05 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
*[[2005]] &ndash; First release of [[Git]] distributed version control system.
*[[2009]] &ndash; Former [[Peru]]vian President [[Alberto Fujimori]] is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
*  2009   &ndash; [[April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests|Mass protests]] begin across [[Moldova]] under the belief that results from the [[April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election|parliamentary election]] are fraudulent.
*[[2011]] &ndash; The [[Israel Defense Forces]] use their [[Iron Dome]] missile system to successfully intercept a [[BM-21 Grad]] launched from [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], marking the first [[Short-range ballistic missile|short-range missile]] intercept ever.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Sholom|last=Friedmann|date=February 14, 2018|title=Our Journey|magazine=[[Ami Magazine]]|issue=355|page=118}}</ref>
*  2011   &ndash; A gunman [[Rio de Janeiro school shooting|opens fire]] at an elementary school in [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]], killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Tom |title=Brazil shooting: 12 children killed in school rampage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/07/brazil-shooting-rampage-gunman |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 April 2025}}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; A man [[2017 Stockholm truck attack|deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people]] in [[Stockholm|Stockholm, Sweden]], killing five people and injuring fifteen others.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-04-08|title=The Latest: Swedish police haul away truck used in attack|url=https://apnews.com/article/90d69285769b4b619a9af3d551bb25d9|access-date=2021-05-23|website=AP NEWS}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-10 |title=Stockholm truck attack: Who is Rakhmat Akilov? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39552691 |access-date=2024-04-21 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>15 were reported injured on the day of the attack. However, a woman died three weeks after the attack, bringing the number of injuries down to 14.</ref>
*  2017   &ndash; U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] orders the [[2017 Shayrat missile strike]] against Syria in retaliation for the [[Khan Shaykhun chemical attack]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Faith Karimi and Jason Hanna|title=What you need to know about US strike on Syrian air base|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/trump-syria-airstrike-what-we-know/index.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=CNN|date=7 April 2017}}</ref> 
*[[2018]] &ndash; Former [[Brazilians|Brazilian]] president, [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge [[Sergio Moro|Sérgio Moro]], from the "[[Operation Car Wash|Car-Wash Operation]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Lula Da Silva, Brazil's Beloved Ex-President, Surrenders After Standoff |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/07/600499624/lula-da-silva-brazils-beloved-ex-president-continues-resisting-order-to-surrende |website=NPR |date=7 April 2018 |access-date=31 July 2021|last1=Pinter |first1=Jacob }}</ref> Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the [[Supreme Federal Court|Brazilian Supreme Court]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Dom |title=Brazil's former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court ruling |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/lula-brazil-released-prison-supreme-court-ruling |website=The Guardian |date=8 November 2019 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*  2018   &ndash; Syria launches the [[Douma chemical attack]] during the [[Eastern Ghouta offensive (February-April 2018)|Eastern Ghouta offensive]] of the [[Syrian civil war|Syrian Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-07-10|title=Syria war: What we know about Douma 'chemical attack'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43697084|access-date=2022-01-10}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[COVID-19 pandemic]]: [[China]] ends its [[Wuhan lockdown|lockdown]] in [[Wuhan]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Zhong|first1=Raymond|last2=Wang|first2=Vivian|date=2020-04-07|title=China Ends Wuhan Lockdown, but Normal Life Is a Distant Dream|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/wuhan-coronavirus.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
*  2020   &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy [[Thomas Modly]] resigns for his handling of the [[COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt|COVID-19 pandemic on USS ''Theodore Roosevelt'']] and the dismissal of [[Brett Crozier]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Browne|title=Acting secretary of the Navy resigns after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=CNN|date=7 April 2020 }}</ref> 
*[[2021]] &ndash; COVID-19 pandemic: The [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] announces that the [[SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant]] has become the dominant strain of [[COVID-19]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|date=2021-04-07|title=Most U.S. infections are now caused by a contagious virus variant, the C.D.C. says.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/covid-variant-infection.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]] is confirmed for the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], becoming the first black female justice.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-04-07|title=Supreme Court Highlights: Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url= https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus}}</ref>