This Day In History – April 7 (National Beer Day!, The Internet’s B Day, Billie Holiday, Daniel Ellsberg, Johnny Hart, jurisprudence born….)

30 – Scholars’ estimate of Jesus’ crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem
397 – The wearing of barbarian clothing in the City of Rome is banned by the Emperor Honorius.
451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529 – First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1141 – Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title ‘Lady of the English’.
1498 – Crowd storms Savonarola’s convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 – France declares war on Venice
1614 – El Greco, Greek-born artist working in Spain (b. 1541) Dies

1712 – Slave revolt (NYC)
1739 – Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
1770 – William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) Born
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951) was born.
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 Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1891 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810) died.
1893 – Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence, minion of evil, Skull n Bones (d. 1969) was birthed.

1897 – Walter Winchell, Harlem newscaster/columnist (Untouchables), born in NYC, New York
1915 – Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1920 – Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012) Born

1922 – Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals
1926 – Mussolini’s Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1928 – James Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick), born in Norman Oklahoma, (d. 2014) Born
1929 – “Crazy” Joe Gallo, Brooklyn New York, American mobster, born
1931 – Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot, Born
Pentagon Papers Author Daniel Ellsberg Says Government May Have Carried Out 9/11 – Daniel Ellsberg, speaking on air to GCN radio host Jack Blood, stated his concerns that criminal elements of the US government were psychologically capable to have carried out 9/11. He warned that within days after a US military strike on Iran that Bush’s handlers would probably stage some type of terror attack in the West to legitimize the new war. Full transcript HERE
Ellsberg went on to state that another major Reichstag-like state-sponsored attack would be followed by a martial law scenario which might include detention camps for American dissenters.

1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. / 1933 – ‘National Beer Day” Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalizing sale of low alcohol beer
1934 – In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1938 – [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (Governor (D) of California 1975-83, 2011- Birthed
1938 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Dinosaurs, and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy) (d. 2005) was born.
1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now), born in Detroit, Michigan
1939 – David Frost, English journalist and game show host (d. 2013) was born.

1940 – 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington)
1946 – Syria’s independence from France is officially recognized.
1947 – Henry Ford, American industrialist, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863) died.
1948 – World Health Organization forms by UN
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1949 – John Oates, American singer-songwriter guitarist, and producer (Hall & Oates) was born.
1951 – Janis Ian, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17), born in NYC, New York
1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor, martial artist, director, producer, and screenwriter was born.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1964 – Russell Crowe, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator), born in Wellington, New Zealand
1966 – US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 – Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 – Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format – Progressive (KMPX-FM)

1969 – The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1969 – Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1977 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 – Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1983 – Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).

1990 – Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. (UN peace-keepers watch…)
1994 – Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 – Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization 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.
2005 – The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.

2007 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (The Wizard of Id.) (b. 1931) Dies
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947) died.
2012 – Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality, dies at 93

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