April 7
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee during the American Civil War.
1913 - More than 5,000 suffragists marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. seeking the right to vote for women.
1922 - The Teapot Dome Scandal had its beginnings as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, in exchange for cash gifts.
1927 - The image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1939 - Italy invaded Albania.
1943 - LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland by Albert Hoffman.
1945 - During World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet, which included the battleship Yamato, that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.
1947 - Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization was founded as an agency under the United Nations.
1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a news conference in which he spoke of the importance of containing the spread of communism in Indochina, saying, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.” (This became known as the “domino theory,” although Eisenhower did not use that term.)
1962 - Nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason.
1966 - The U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B-52 crash.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1976 - China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping.
1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation's second-largest city in terms of population.
1990 - Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)
1990 - A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.
1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 were murdered in the genocide.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet.
2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
2003 - U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.
2009 - Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Cockeye became the third.
2010 - North Korea said it had convicted and sentenced an American man to eight years in a labor prison for entering the country illegally and unspecified hostile acts. (Aijalon Mahli Gomes was freed in August 2010 after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter secured his release.)
2015 - Michael Thomas Slager, a white South Carolina police officer, was charged with murder in the shooting death of Black motorist Walter Lamer Scott after law enforcement officials saw a cellphone video taken by a bystander. (Slager pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison; prosecutors agreed to drop state murder charges that remained after a jury couldn’t agree whether he had committed a crime.)
2020 - President Donald Trump removed Glenn Fine, the acting Defense Department inspector general, who was supposed to oversee the $2.2 trillion rescue package for businesses and individuals affected by the coronavirus.
Birthdays
21 - Millie Hannah (model)
22 - Conner Rayburn (actor)
28 - Gisselle Kuri (actress)
30 - Anne-Marie (singer)
33 - Ed Speleers (actor)
39 - Sian Clifford (actor)
42 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
45 - Kevin Alejandro (actor)
46 - Heather Burns (actress)
46 - Tiki Barber (football player)
46 - Ronde Barber (football player)
56 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
57 - Russell Crowe (actor)
67 - Tony Dorsett (football player)
67 - Jackie Chan (actor)
73 - John Oates (singer)
78 - Roberta Shore (actress)
82 - Francis Ford Coppola (director)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1943 - NFL adopts free substitution rule; helmets made mandatory and 10-game schedule for all teams approved.
1955 - Fort Wayne beat Syracuse 74-71. It was the lowest scoring NBA Playoff game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock.
1956 - The Philadelphia Warriors defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons in five games to win the NBA championship.
1959 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) achieved 19 assists, to tie an NBA Playoff record, in a game against Minneapolis.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus became the youngest Masters champion at age 23.
1986 - WrestleMania 2 is held in three different locations: the main event in Uniondale, New York saw Mr. T defeat "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a boxing match; in Rosemont, Illinois, Andre the Giant won a WWF vs. NFL Battle Royal; and in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match for the WWF Championship.
2001 - The New Jersey Devils ended a streak of 10 consecutive road wins to tie the NHL record.
2003 - Syracuse defeats Kansas 81-78 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2008 - Kansas defeats Memphis 75-68 to win the NCAA Tournament; this tournament marked the first time in the 64-team format that all four top seeds had advanced to the Final Four.
2009 - Connecticut defeats Louisville 76-54 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament for the sixth time.
2013 - WrestleMania 29 is held in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The top matches on the card saw Alberto Del Rio defeat Jack Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship and John Cena defeated The Rock for the WWE Championship.
2014 - Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA Tournament, marking the second time that a school had won both the men's and women's titles in the same year.
2015 - Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 63-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2018 - The Vegas Golden Knights establish an NHL record for best season for an expansion team with 51 wins, bettering the previous mark of 33 wins set by the Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers in 1993-94.
2019 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 82-81 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - Retiring NBA stars Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks) and Dwayne Wade (Miami Heat) both play their final home games.
2019 - The Houston Rockets convert an NBA record 27 three-point field goals in a 149-113 win over the Phoenix Suns.
2019 - WrestleMania 35 is held in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The top matches on the card saw Seth Rollins defeat Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship; Kofi Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship; and for the first time in event history a women's match headlined the show as Becky Lynch defeated Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair to win both WWE women's championship titles.
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee during the American Civil War.
1913 - More than 5,000 suffragists marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. seeking the right to vote for women.
1922 - The Teapot Dome Scandal had its beginnings as Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to his friends, oilmen Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, in exchange for cash gifts.
1927 - The image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1939 - Italy invaded Albania.
1943 - LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland by Albert Hoffman.
1945 - During World War II, American planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet, which included the battleship Yamato, that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.
1947 - Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization was founded as an agency under the United Nations.
1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a news conference in which he spoke of the importance of containing the spread of communism in Indochina, saying, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.” (This became known as the “domino theory,” although Eisenhower did not use that term.)
1962 - Nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason.
1966 - The U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B-52 crash.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1976 - China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping.
1984 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation's second-largest city in terms of population.
1990 - Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)
1990 - A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.
1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 were murdered in the genocide.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet.
2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
2003 - U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.
2009 - Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Cockeye became the third.
2010 - North Korea said it had convicted and sentenced an American man to eight years in a labor prison for entering the country illegally and unspecified hostile acts. (Aijalon Mahli Gomes was freed in August 2010 after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter secured his release.)
2015 - Michael Thomas Slager, a white South Carolina police officer, was charged with murder in the shooting death of Black motorist Walter Lamer Scott after law enforcement officials saw a cellphone video taken by a bystander. (Slager pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison; prosecutors agreed to drop state murder charges that remained after a jury couldn’t agree whether he had committed a crime.)
2020 - President Donald Trump removed Glenn Fine, the acting Defense Department inspector general, who was supposed to oversee the $2.2 trillion rescue package for businesses and individuals affected by the coronavirus.
Birthdays
21 - Millie Hannah (model)
22 - Conner Rayburn (actor)
28 - Gisselle Kuri (actress)
30 - Anne-Marie (singer)
33 - Ed Speleers (actor)
39 - Sian Clifford (actor)
42 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
45 - Kevin Alejandro (actor)
46 - Heather Burns (actress)
46 - Tiki Barber (football player)
46 - Ronde Barber (football player)
56 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
57 - Russell Crowe (actor)
67 - Tony Dorsett (football player)
67 - Jackie Chan (actor)
73 - John Oates (singer)
78 - Roberta Shore (actress)
82 - Francis Ford Coppola (director)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1943 - NFL adopts free substitution rule; helmets made mandatory and 10-game schedule for all teams approved.
1955 - Fort Wayne beat Syracuse 74-71. It was the lowest scoring NBA Playoff game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock.
1956 - The Philadelphia Warriors defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons in five games to win the NBA championship.
1959 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) achieved 19 assists, to tie an NBA Playoff record, in a game against Minneapolis.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus became the youngest Masters champion at age 23.
1986 - WrestleMania 2 is held in three different locations: the main event in Uniondale, New York saw Mr. T defeat "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a boxing match; in Rosemont, Illinois, Andre the Giant won a WWF vs. NFL Battle Royal; and in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match for the WWF Championship.
2001 - The New Jersey Devils ended a streak of 10 consecutive road wins to tie the NHL record.
2003 - Syracuse defeats Kansas 81-78 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2008 - Kansas defeats Memphis 75-68 to win the NCAA Tournament; this tournament marked the first time in the 64-team format that all four top seeds had advanced to the Final Four.
2009 - Connecticut defeats Louisville 76-54 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament for the sixth time.
2013 - WrestleMania 29 is held in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The top matches on the card saw Alberto Del Rio defeat Jack Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship and John Cena defeated The Rock for the WWE Championship.
2014 - Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA Tournament, marking the second time that a school had won both the men's and women's titles in the same year.
2015 - Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 63-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2018 - The Vegas Golden Knights establish an NHL record for best season for an expansion team with 51 wins, bettering the previous mark of 33 wins set by the Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers in 1993-94.
2019 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 82-81 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - Retiring NBA stars Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks) and Dwayne Wade (Miami Heat) both play their final home games.
2019 - The Houston Rockets convert an NBA record 27 three-point field goals in a 149-113 win over the Phoenix Suns.
2019 - WrestleMania 35 is held in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The top matches on the card saw Seth Rollins defeat Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship; Kofi Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship; and for the first time in event history a women's match headlined the show as Becky Lynch defeated Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair to win both WWE women's championship titles.
