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Events from History on April 07

1991 : "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1970 : "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1994 : "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1991 : "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs
1949 : "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1923 : (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1985 : 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1945 : 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1933 : 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1940 : 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1923 : 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed
1985 : 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1919 : 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1788 : 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1953 : 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1971 : 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1991 : 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1928 : 44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender
1996 : 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1906 : Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1943 : Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1987 : after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1963 : after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1987 : Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns,
1625 : Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1951 : American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1995 : Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1863 : Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 : Battle of Farmville VA
1981 : Belgium Eyskens govt forms
1965 : Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
1990 : BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1941 : British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1943 : British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1983 : Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1976 : Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1991 : Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1977 : Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1498 : Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1953 : Dag Hammarskj”ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1993 : Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
1917 : De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
1984 : Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1988 : Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1971 : Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
1969 : Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1958 : Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut
1831 : Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1973 : Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1652 : Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa
1827 : English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1655 : Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1990 : Farm Aid IV concert
1990 : Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die
1926 : Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif)
1509 : France declares war on Venice
1818 : Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
1944 : General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
1991 : George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1954 : German govt refuses to recognize DDR
1988 : Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1860 : Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1978 : Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1942 : Heavy German assault on Malta
1979 : Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1974 : Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
1979 : Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1997 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1584 : Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1990 : in a ferry flip over in Burma
1934 : In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1521 : Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1982 : Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1979 : Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1967 : Israeli/Syrian border fights
1939 : Italy invades Albania
1917 : James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1996 : Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pak, Singapore
1980 : Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1724 : Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1990 : John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1957 : Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
1456 : Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1943 : Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1521 : Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1645 : Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1990 : Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1798 : Mississippi Territory organized
1926 : Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1987 : National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
1891 : Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1990 : NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
1989 : NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for
1994 : NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1969 : obscene material
1959 : Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1983 : Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1946 : Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1982 : Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1978 : player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1118 : Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 : Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1805 : Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1978 : Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1954 : Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1971 : Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1933 : Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1963 : Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn
1959 : Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1988 : Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1901 : SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1931 : Seals Stadium opens in SF
1994 : Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 : Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1712 : Slave revolt (NYC)
1989 : Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1956 : Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1888 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
1983 : STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1945 : superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk
1969 : Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of
1969 : Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1902 : Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1967 : Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1962 : Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1933 : University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1945 : US B-17's bombs range at Lneburg
1978 : US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted
1951 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1945 : US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide
1966 : US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1989 : using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1927 : Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1994 : Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1954 : WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 : WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1983 : WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480
1983 : women bowlers for 83-day event
1923 : Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1948 : World Health Organization forms by UN
1986 : Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1991 : Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1962 : Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 : Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic

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