:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7
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| 529 – Byzantine Emperor {{nowrap|Justinian I}} issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence.
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| 1141 – The Anarchy: Empress Matilda became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English" after failing to be crowned in place of her cousin Stephen.
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| 1348 – Charles, King of Bohemia, issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.
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| 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his St John Passion, a musical setting of the Passion of Jesus, at Good Friday Vespers in St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig, Leipzig.
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| 1767 – Troops of the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty sacked the Siamese city of Ayutthaya to end the Burmese–Siamese War, bringing the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom to an end.
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| 1788 – American pioneers established the town of Marietta (now in Ohio), the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
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| 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
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| 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level.
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| 1940 – Educator Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
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| 1954 – Cold War: U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the domino theory, speculating that if one nation in a region came under the influence of communism, then its surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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| 1956 – Spain relinquished its protectorate in Morocco.
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| 1969 – Steve Crocker published RFC{{nbsp}}1, the first in a series of Request for Comments documents that helped shape the evolution of the Internet.
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| 2010 – Violent protests started in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in response to perceived corruption and rising living expenses, eventually resulting in the collapse of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government.
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- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, at the time the bloodiest battle in U.S. history, in Hardin County, Tennessee.
- 1896 – An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.
- 1926 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson.
- 1948 – The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.
- 1949 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
- 1964 – American Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1972 – Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
- 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
- 1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
- 2017 – A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
- Born/died: | George the Standard-Bearer |d|821| El Greco |d|1614| John Sheffield |b|1648| Toussaint Louverture |d|1803| Randall Davidson |b|1848| Marjory Stoneman Douglas |b|1890| John Bernard Flannagan |b|1895| Bert Ironmonger |b|1882| Santa Barraza |b|1951|Nuno Mendes |b|1978|Humza Yousaf |b|1985|
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- The Anarchy and Matilda appear on November 1, so Empress Matilda should not appear in the same year.
- Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira appears on April 6, so Rwandan genocide should not appear in the same year.
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April 7: National Beer Day in the United States
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- 1655 – After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII.
- 1945 – World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Kikusui I in the East China Sea.
- 1994 – Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
- 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
{{Born and died list|Berengar I of Italy |d|924| Martha Ray |d|1779| Joseph Lyons |d|1939|Dave Arneson |d|2009}}
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