April 7......

April 7 is the 97th (98th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Books "When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes." — Erasmus

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Liberal Bashing "Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy." — Ann Coulter

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 451 - Attila's Hun's plunder Metz

● 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

● 1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

● 1348 - Prague University, later Charles University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV

● 1456 - Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik

● 1498 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence Italy

● 1509 - France declares war on Venice

● 1521 - Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books

● 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

● 1541 - Spanish founder of the Jesuits, St. Francis Xavier, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.

● 1584 - Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma

● 1625 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander

● 1628 - Jonas Michaelius, 51, arrived in New Amsterdam (New York City), the first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church to come to America.

● 1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil

● 1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa

● 1655 - Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII.

● 1712 - New York City slave revolt begins - slaves set fire to their master's outhouse. They then ambush the whites who arrive to put out the blaze, killing 24.

● 1739 - Dirk Turpin, celebrated English robber, hangs.

● 1772 - Birth of Utopian socialist Charles Fourier, Besancon, France.

● 1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta

● 1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.

● 1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.

● 1803 - Birth of French socialist feminist Flora Tristan.

● 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

● 1809 - Birth of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades Conservation activist.

● 1818 - General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians

● 1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it in the previous year.

● 1829 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

● 1831 - Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil

● 1836 - William Godwin, the "father" of modern anarchism, dies.

● 1856 - Foundation of Nelson College, Nelson, New Zealand.

● 1860 - Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe

● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends - Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.

● 1863 - Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter

● 1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California.

● 1865 - Battle of Farmville VA

● 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, the only one at the federal level.

● 1867 - Johnson C. Smith University was established this day.

● 1870 - Munich Soviet leader, anarchist/pacifist Gustav Landauer born, Karlsruhe, Germany. Assassinated in 1919 by soldiers sent to subdue the Bavarian insurrection.

● 1871 - Paris Communards burn guillotine as symbol of counter-revolution.

● 1872 - Birth of Dr. Marie Equi (1872-1952), New Bedford, Mass. Lesbian anarchist and labor organizer. Found guilty of sedition during WWI (as were countless others opposing American involvement in one of Europe's bloodiest wars) under a newly amended Espionage Act.

● 1879 - Italy - Mass arrests of Italian revolutionaries.

● 1882 - Birth of Italian anarchist Armando Borghi (1882-1968).

● 1884 - Birth of C. H. Dodd, English clergyman and Bible scholar. Dodd became the most influential British New Testament scholar of the mid-20th century, and penned over a dozen books, including "The Parables of the Kingdom" (1934).

● 1891 - Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day

● 1901 - Switzerland - Violent confrontations with the police and army during demonstrations against the extradition of an Italian anarchist suspected of participation in the attack on King Umberto I the previous year.

● 1901 - SDAP demands General voting right/abolishing First Chamber

● 1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms

● 1904 - King Alfonso of Spain escapes anarchist assassination attempt.

● 1906 - Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business

● 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

● 1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

● 1908 - H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

● 1911 - Free Speech League formally incorporated, in Albany, New York. The League remained active until the formation of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization FSL leaders felt could better handle civil liberties cases.

● 1912 - Raymod Callemin, member of the anarchist Bonnet Gang, arrested in Paris.

● 1915 - Billie Holiday, who is considered to have been one of the great American jazz singers, was born.

● 1917 - The day after Congress declares war, leaders of the Socialist Party -- then a major force in U.S. politics -- vote their opposition to WWI. The following summer, Socialist anti-war meetings will draw crowds of thousands, especially Midwest farmers.

● 1917 - Forty-five hundred attend Political Prisoners Ball, benefiting the San Francisco Labor Defense for Mooney and Billings; features "cell-booth bazaar, and prison garb and military costumes."

● 1919 - Workers' Councils declare a Republic in Bavaria, in spite of the opposition of the Communists. Troops sent in by the socialists will crush the revolutionaries at month's end, killing over 700.

● 1919 - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks

● 1922 - Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leases Wyoming's entire Teapot Dome oilfield, set aside as a naval oil reserve, to his close friend Harry Sinclair, head of the too-good-a-name-to-be-true Mammoth Oil Company. It is later revealed that Fall accepted a $25,000 "unsecured loan" from Sinclair.

● 1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney

● 1923 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party

● 1926 - Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA)

● 1926 - Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

● 1927 - Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York NY

● 1928 - Marcel Wullens dies of tuberculoses. Militant French anarchist and syndicalist.

● 1930 - The first steel columns were set for the Empire State Building.

● 1933 - Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment

● 1933 - University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic

● 1933 - 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service

● 1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience

● 1938 - LSD is first synthesized.

● 1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania.

● 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

● 1941 - British Generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa

● 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta

● 1943 - Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg

● 1943 - Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD.

● 1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia

● 1943 - Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded in allied air raid

● 1943 - Holocaust in Terebovlia, western Ukraine: Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches.

● 1944 - General Montgomery speaks to Generals about invasion plan

● 1945 - 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers

● 1945 - US B-17's bombs range at Lüneburg

● 1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route on a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

● 1945 - Kantaro Suzuki becomes the 42nd Prime Minister of Japan.

● 1945 - World War II: Visoko was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.

● 1946 - Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR

● 1946 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognized.

● 1947 - Auto pioneer and Nazi sympathizer Henry Ford died at age 83.

● 1948 - World Health Organization (WHO) formed in Geneva, with the stated goal of making health care available to everyone in the world by the year 2000. {Well we didn't make that one true even in the US much less the third world countries.}

● 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1953 - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

● 1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden elected 2nd UN General-Secretary. He endeared himself to Christians, after his death in 1961, through the 1964 publication of his spiritual journal, "Markings."

● 1953 - The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to their air conflicts.

● 1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.

● 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

● 1954 - German government refuses to recognize DDR

● 1955 - Anthony Eden, Conservative Party, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

● 1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.

● 1957 - The last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.

● 1959 - Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford CA

● 1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years

● 1962 - Five arrested at public assembly against nuclear weapons, Glasgow, Scotland.

● 1962 - Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail

● 1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.

● 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.

● 1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)

● 1966 - Two prosecuted for burning conscription papers, Sydney, Australia.

● 1967 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.

● 1968 - Nine thousand attend a Seattle memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr., slightly fewer than would attend the 1994 memorial following the death of Kurt Cobain.

● 1968 - Jim Clark killed in car smash; Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in a car crash during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.

● 1968 - In a letter penned during his 83rd and final year of life, Karl Barth wrote: 'How one learns to be thankful for each day on which one can still do something.'

● 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

● 1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

● 1970 - California Gov. Ronald Reagan, displaying the empathy and humanism that would later mark him as one of the great political leaders of the 20th century, announces his attitude towards student civil rights activists, dissenters, and Vietnam War protestors (quote) - "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."

● 1971 - U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.

● 1971 - President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free

● 1976 - Government crisis as Stonehouse quits; Controversial MP John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party, leaving James Callaghan's government in a minority of one.

● 1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping

● 1977 - Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical "TRIS"

● 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

● 1978 - President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

● 1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC

● 1979 - Italy - Mass arrests as thousands of radicals jailed for "terrorist conspiracy." Their writings and actions, says the State, "generalizes terrorism." Italian law allows suspects to be held 12 years without trial.

● 1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.

● 1981 - Belgium Eyskens government forms

● 1982 - Italy - Pio Turroni dies. Anarchist, combatant, publisher. Left Italy to escape the fascists in 1923. Fought with the Italian Column in the Spanish Revolution, then with the anarchist Ascaso Column until wounded. Imprisoned in France with the onset of WWII, released, imprisoned twice more before making his way to freedom in Morocco, then Mexico. With the liberation of Italy Turroni returned to help rebuild the anarchist movement.

● 1982 - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested

● 1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

● 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.

● 1984 - Detroit Tiger Jack Morris pitches no-hitter against Chicago White Sox, 4-0

● 1985 - In Sudan, Gen. Swar el-Dahab took over the Presidency while President Gaafar el-Nimeiry was visiting the U.S. and Egypt.

● 1985 - The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium-range nuclear missiles.

● 1986 - Sinclair sells computer business; Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair sells rights to his machines to Amstrad in a £5m deal.

● 1987 - In Oklahoma a 16-month-old baby was killed by a pit bull. On the same day a 67-year-old man was killed by another pit bull in Dayton, OH.

● 1987 - National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington DC

● 1988 - Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested

● 1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988.

● 1988 - In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on charges for plotting to overthrow the U.S. federal government.

● 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

● 1990 - John Poindexter, building his resume for the administration of George W. Bush, is convicted of five felony charges in Iran-Contra trial.

● 1990 - Farm Aid IV concert

● 1990 - Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma

● 1990 - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations

● 1990 - At Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs went on display. On the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal.

● 1991 - Over 5,000 rally against police brutality in Los Angeles.

● 1991 - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00

● 1991 - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth

● 1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.

● 1994 - Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed.

● 1994 - FedEx Flight 705 incident occurs in Memphis, Tennessee.

● 1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time

● 1995 - Mexico - Radio Huayacocotla, "The Voice of the Campesino," suppressed by the government.

● 1998 - Wendy O. Williams, the ex-stripper and chainsaw-wielding singer for the punk rock band, The Plasmatics, commits suicide in the woods near her Connecticut home.

● 1998 - Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.

● 1999 - US claims 'banana war' victory; The World Trade Organization has ruled in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with Europe over bananas.

● 1999 - Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo's main border crossings to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.

● 2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits.

● 2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet.

● 2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.

● 2002 - The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct.

● 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

● 2003 - The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation.

● 2006 - Severe tornadoes rip through central Tennessee, destroying hundreds of homes and killing 13 people.

BIRTHS

● 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552)

● 1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer, (d. 1584)

● 1613 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)

● 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)

● 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)

● 1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)

● 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)

● 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)

● 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer

● 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)

● 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)

● 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)

● 1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)

● 1847 - Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist (d. 1885)

● 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)

● 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)

● 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)

● 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)

● 1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)

● 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)

● 1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)

● 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)

● 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)

● 1891 - Sir David Low, New Zealand-born English journalist, political cartoonist and caricaturist (d. 1963)

● 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)

● 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)

● 1896 - Benny Leonard, American lightweight boxing champion (1917-1925) (d. 1947)

● 1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)

● 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)

● 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)

● 1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)

● 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)

● 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)

● 1917 - R. G. Armstrong, Actor

● 1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player

● 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer

● 1919 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)

● 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player

● 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)

● 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer

● 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)

● 1928 - James Garner, American actor

● 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998)

● 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999)

● 1929 - Bob Denard, French soldier

● 1930 - Andrew Sachs, British actor

● 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author

● 1932 - Cal Smith, Country singer

● 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor ("MASH")

● 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)

● 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician

● 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist

● 1937 - Charlie Thomas, R&B singer (The Drifters)

● 1938 - Jerry Brown, Oakland mayor, former California governor

● 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter

● 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)

● 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director

● 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host

● 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)

● 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany

● 1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager

● 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef

● 1945 - Magnús Þór Jónsson (Megas), Icelandic vocalist, songwriter and writer

● 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director

● 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)

● 1947 - Eliseo Soriano, phenomenal Philippine religious evangelist

● 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)

● 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer

● 1949 - Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana

● 1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates)

● 1951 - John Dittrich, Country musician (Restless Heart)

● 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter

● 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor

● 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player and Hall of Fame member

● 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)

● 1956 - Charles Carreon, American lawyer and author

● 1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor

● 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor

● 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer

● 1962 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995)

● 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber

● 1962 - Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist

● 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty

● 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor

● 1964 - Mark Kibble, R&B singer (Take 6)

● 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian

● 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist

● 1965 - Dave "Yorkie" Palmer, Rock musician (Space)

● 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player

● 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer

● 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player

● 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist

● 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor

● 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress

● 1971 - Rob Steele, American author

● 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater

● 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier

● 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model

● 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player

● 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player

● 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player

● 1975 - Heather Burns, Actress

● 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor

● 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress

● 1979 - Tony Malone, British designer and activist

● 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player

DEATHS

● 1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)

● 1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)

● 1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)

● 1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)

● 1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)

● 1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)

● 1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)

● 1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)

● 1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)

● 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651)

● 1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)

● 1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)

● 1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702)

● 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)

● 1767 - Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)

● 1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)

● 1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)

● 1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)

● 1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)

● 1804 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743)

● 1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)

● 1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)

● 1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775)

● 1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)

● 1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)

● 1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781)

● 1868 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)

● 1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)

● 1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)

● 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)

● 1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)

● 1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)

● 1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet

● 1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)

● 1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)

● 1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)

● 1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)

● 1968 - Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)

● 1981 - Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)

● 1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)

● 1984 - Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1924)

● 1990 - Ronald Evans, astronaut (b. 1933)

● 1992 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)

● 1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician (b. 1923)

● 1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)

● 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)

● 1997 - Witto Aloma, baseball player (b. 1923)

● 1997 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935)

● 1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)

● 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and environmentalist (b. 1890)

● 2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)

● 2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)

● 2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)

● 2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)

● 2005 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Catholic Church:
● St. Aibert
● St. Aphraates
● St. Brynach
● St. Calliopus
● St. Celsus
● Sts. Cyriaca & Companions
● St. Epiphanius
● St. Finan
● St. Gibardus
● St. Goran
● St. Hegesippus
● St. Henry Walpole
● St. Herman-Jozef (d. 1241)
● St. John Baptist de La Salle, priest, patron of teachers (d. 1719)
● St. Pelagius
● St. Peleusius
● St. Saturninus
● Bl. Alexander Rawlins
● Bl. Edward Oldcorne
● Bl. Ursulina

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 25 (Civil Date: April 7)
● THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR MOST HOLY LADY, THE THEOTOKOS AND EVER-VIRGIN MARY.
● New-Martyr Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (1925).
● Repose of Schemahieromonk Parthenius of Kiev (1855).Orthodox

● The feast of Annunciation is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church. (3/25 OS)

● Rwanda Massacre Remembrance Day - also known as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, as designated by the United Nations.

● World Health Day - April 7th of every year is designated as World Health Day and celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization to emphasize significant issues in public health of worldwide concern. Observed annually since 1948.

● Mozambique - Women's Day.

● China : Ching Ming - families gather at graves of ancestors

● Haiti : World Health Day (1948)

● Yugoslavia : Republic Day (1963)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Switzerland: Glarius Festival (1388) - (Thursday)
● Massachusetts: Student Government Day - (Friday)

IN FICTION

● Dante Alighieri's entry into the gates of Inferno.

● 1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face"

● 1928 - The events of Part 1 of William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury take place.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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