April 7<\/p>\n
1862
\nGen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.<\/p>\n
1913
\n5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., seeking the vote for women.<\/p>\n
1927
\nU.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover\u2019s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.<\/p>\n
1943
\nLSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratories in Basil, Switzerland, by Albert Hoffman.<\/p>\n
1948
\nThe World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.<\/p>\n
1949
\nRodgers\u2019 and Hammerstein\u2019s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n
1994
\nHutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.<\/p>\n
2003
\nC\u00e9cile de Brunhoff, the creator of Babar the elephant, died.<\/p>\n
2009
\nVermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
William Wordsworth
\nEnglish poet (1770)<\/p>\n
Billie Holiday
\nsinger (1915)<\/p>\n
Ravi Shankar
\nsitarist and composer (1920)<\/p>\n
Francis Ford Coppola
\nfilmmaker (1939)<\/p>\n
Gerhard Schr\u00f6der
\nchancellor of Germany (1944)<\/p>\n
Jackie Chan
\nactor (1954)<\/p>\n
Russell Crowe
\nactor (1964)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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