April 7
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee during the 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 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover's speech from Washington, D.C. was seen and heard in New York City in the first long-distance television transmission.
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 - Automobile pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization was founded.
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.")
1957 - Shortly after midnight, the last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1959 - A referendum in Oklahoma repealed the state's ban on alcoholic beverages.
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 the coast of Spain following a B-52 crash.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting the private possession of obscene material.
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 are murdered.
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 became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - A massive avalanche engulfed a Pakistani military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border; all 140 people on the base died.
2017 - President Donald Trump concluded his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, saying he had developed an "outstanding" relationship with the Chinese leader.
2020 - Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned after lambasting the officer he’d fired as the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which had been stricken by a coronavirus outbreak; James McPherson was appointed as acting Navy secretary.
Birthdays
22 - Millie Hannah (model)
31 - Anne-Marie (singer)
34 - Ed Speleers (actor)
36 - Tauren Wells (singer)
40 - Sian Clifford (actor)
43 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
46 - Kevin Alejandro (actor)
47 - Heather Burns (actress)
47 - Tiki Barber (football player)
47 - Ronde Barber (football player)
57 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
58 - Russell Crowe (actor)
68 - Tony Dorsett (football player)
68 - Jackie Chan (actor)
71 - Janis Ian (singer)
74 - John Oates (singer)
75 - Patricia Bennett (singer)
79 - Roberta Shore (actress)
83 - Francis Ford Coppola (director)
85 - Charlie Thomas (singer)
87 - Bobby Bare (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1943 - The NFL adopts its free substitution rule and made the use of helmets mandatory.
1951 - Ben Hogan wins his first Masters title.
1955 - Fort Wayne defeated Syracuse 74-71 in 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 of the Boston Celtics tied an NBA playoff single-game record with 19 assists in a game against the Minneapolis Lakers.
1963 - At age 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win a Masters championship.
1970 - The Milwaukee Brewers, formerly the Seattle Pilots, play their first game -- a 12-0 loss to the California Angels.
1977 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their inaugural MLB game, a 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox.
2001 - The New Jersey Devils ended a streak of 10 consecutive road wins, tying an 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 was the first tournament since seeding began to see all four #1 seeds reach the men's Final Four.
2009 - Connecticut defeats Louisville 76-54 to win their sixth NCAA Women's Tournament.
2014 - Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA Tournament, marking the second time a school had won both the men's and women's Division I tournaments in the same year. (UConn also accomplished the feat in 2004.)
2015 - Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 63-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 82-81 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - The Houston Rockets convert an NBA record 27 three-point field goals in a 149-113 win over the Phoenix Suns.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks and Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat each play the final home games of their careers.
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee during the 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 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover's speech from Washington, D.C. was seen and heard in New York City in the first long-distance television transmission.
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 - Automobile pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization was founded.
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.")
1957 - Shortly after midnight, the last of New York City's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1959 - A referendum in Oklahoma repealed the state's ban on alcoholic beverages.
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 the coast of Spain following a B-52 crash.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting the private possession of obscene material.
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 are murdered.
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 became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - A massive avalanche engulfed a Pakistani military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border; all 140 people on the base died.
2017 - President Donald Trump concluded his two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, saying he had developed an "outstanding" relationship with the Chinese leader.
2020 - Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned after lambasting the officer he’d fired as the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which had been stricken by a coronavirus outbreak; James McPherson was appointed as acting Navy secretary.
Birthdays
22 - Millie Hannah (model)
31 - Anne-Marie (singer)
34 - Ed Speleers (actor)
36 - Tauren Wells (singer)
40 - Sian Clifford (actor)
43 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
46 - Kevin Alejandro (actor)
47 - Heather Burns (actress)
47 - Tiki Barber (football player)
47 - Ronde Barber (football player)
57 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
58 - Russell Crowe (actor)
68 - Tony Dorsett (football player)
68 - Jackie Chan (actor)
71 - Janis Ian (singer)
74 - John Oates (singer)
75 - Patricia Bennett (singer)
79 - Roberta Shore (actress)
83 - Francis Ford Coppola (director)
85 - Charlie Thomas (singer)
87 - Bobby Bare (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1943 - The NFL adopts its free substitution rule and made the use of helmets mandatory.
1951 - Ben Hogan wins his first Masters title.
1955 - Fort Wayne defeated Syracuse 74-71 in 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 of the Boston Celtics tied an NBA playoff single-game record with 19 assists in a game against the Minneapolis Lakers.
1963 - At age 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win a Masters championship.
1970 - The Milwaukee Brewers, formerly the Seattle Pilots, play their first game -- a 12-0 loss to the California Angels.
1977 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their inaugural MLB game, a 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox.
2001 - The New Jersey Devils ended a streak of 10 consecutive road wins, tying an 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 was the first tournament since seeding began to see all four #1 seeds reach the men's Final Four.
2009 - Connecticut defeats Louisville 76-54 to win their sixth NCAA Women's Tournament.
2014 - Connecticut defeats Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA Tournament, marking the second time a school had won both the men's and women's Division I tournaments in the same year. (UConn also accomplished the feat in 2004.)
2015 - Connecticut defeats Notre Dame 63-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 82-81 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2019 - The Houston Rockets convert an NBA record 27 three-point field goals in a 149-113 win over the Phoenix Suns.
2019 - Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks and Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat each play the final home games of their careers.
