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Why am I making a blog post about April 7th? In case you were not aware, there are some very important things that happened on this very day.

• 0 - Jesus was crucified; (controversial amoung scholars, but I’ll take it)
• 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
• 1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
• 1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
• 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.
• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
• 1805 - First public performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony (Eroica).
• 1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it 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.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends - the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• 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, and the only one of a federal politician.
• 1890 - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• 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
• 1922 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
• 1927 - First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
• 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.
• 1943 - Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. There they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
• 1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
• 1945 - World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
• 1946 - Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
• 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1948 - A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
• 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
• 1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
• 1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
• 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
• 1969 - The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
• 1971 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
• 1976 - Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
• 1985 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
• 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
• 1990 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).
• 1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
• 1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
• 1999 - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• 2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
• 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.

Famous people’s birthdays?

• 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552)
• 1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (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)
• 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)
• 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
• 1859 - Walter Camp, sports authority known as the “Father of American Football” (d. 1925)
• 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 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
• 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
• 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)
• 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
• 1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1914 - Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
• 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
• 1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1917 - R.G. Armstrong, American 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 film producer and director (d. 1998)
• 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
• 1930 - Andrew Sachs, English actor
• 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author
• 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor
• 1934 - Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts
• 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
• 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
• 1935 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
• 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
• 1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician
• 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
• 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
• 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
• 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host
• 1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
• 1942 - Jeetendra, Indian actor
• 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 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
• 1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
• 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
• 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
• 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
• 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
• 1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
• 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
• 1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates)
• 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
• 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
• 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
• 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
• 1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
• 1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
• 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
• 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
• 1962 - Andrew “Andy” Hampsten, American cyclist
• 1962 - Hugh O’Connor, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
• 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
• 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor
• 1964 - Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
• 1965 - Jerry Frazier, Photographer
• 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
• 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
• 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
• 1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
• 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player
• 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
• 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
• 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
• 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
• 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
• 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
• 1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
• 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player
• 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player
• 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
• 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
• 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
• 1977 - Guido van der Werve, Dutch artist
• 1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
• 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 - Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
• 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
• 1986 - Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity

As you can clearly and plainly see, today is a very important day for us to celebrate. If you still don’t understand why I posted this, I do enjoy Itunes and Amazon.com certificates.

Until tomorrow where I will blog (brag) about last Saturday’s wedding at the Long Beach Museum of Art.