Today is Monday, April seventh, the 97th day of 2025. There are 268 days a 12 months.
Today in history:
On April 7, 1994, sooner or later after President Rwanda and Burundi died on their aircraft in a rocket attack, the moderate Hutu Prime Minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana and her husband were killed by Rwandic soldiers. In the next 100 days, Hutu extremists slaughtered lots of of hundreds of minorities -tutsi- and Hutu moderates.
Also on this date:
In 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant and Major General Don Carlos Buell defeated the confederated forces within the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
In 1922, the Interior Minister Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to rent the US Navy Petroleum Reserve in Wyoming and California to his friends, the oil men Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. Finally, autumn could be convicted of bribery and conspiracy in a so -called scandal of the tea dome.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a press conference through which he outlined the concept of the “Domino theory” when he spoke in regards to the importance of containing the spread of communism in Indochina.
In 1966, the US marine recovered a hydrogen bomb that the US air weapon had lost within the Mediterranean after a B-52 accident before Spain.
In 1984 the census reported that Los Angeles Chicago had overtaken the nation because the “second city” of the nation by way of the population.
In 2022, the Senate Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed the Supreme Court and secured her place as the primary black female judiciary of the court.
Today's birthdays:
- Country musician Bobby Bare is 90.
- Former California governor Jerry Brown is 87.
- The film director Francis Ford Coppola is 86.
- The musician John Oates is 77.
- Singer songwriter Janis Ian is 74.
- Actor Jackie Chan is 71.
- Famer Tony Dorsett's football hall is 71.
- The former boxer James “Buster” Douglas is 65.
- Actor Russell Crowe is 61.
- The actor comedian Bill Bellamy is 60.
- Famer Ronde Barber's football hall is 50.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Adrián Beltré is 46.
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