1922<\/strong> – U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – The first steel columns were set for the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – Prohibition ended in the United States.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – British and American armies linked up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa to form a solid line against the German army.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The Japanese battleship\u00a0Yamato<\/i>, the world\u2019s largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The\u00a0musical “South Pacific”\u00a0by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The United Nations’ World Health Organization began operations.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The Big Four met for the first time in 2 years to seek an end to their air conflicts.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM’s first commercially available scientific computer.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The last of New York City’s electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Yugoslavia proclaimed itself the Socialist Republic.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – The U.S. recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Israel reported that they had shot down six Syrian MIGs.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – John Wayne won his first and only Oscar for his role in\u00a0“True Grit.”\u00a0He had been in over 200 films.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Nixon\u00a0pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0broke diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed economic sanctions in response to the taking of hostages on November 4, 1979.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson made the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The Chinese government canceled all remaining sports and cultural exchanges with the U.S. for 1983.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – In Goteborg, Sweden, China swept all of the world table tennis titles except for men’s doubles.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – In Sudan, Gen. Swar el-Dahab took over the Presidency while President Gaafar el-Nimeiry was visiting the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Egypt.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The Soviet Union announced a unilateral freeze on medium-range nuclear missiles.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – In Oklahoma, a 16-month-old baby was killed by a pit bull. On the same day, a 67-year-old man was killed by another pit bull in Dayton, OH.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – In Fort Smith, AR, 13 white supremacists were acquitted on charges for plotting to overthrow the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0federal government.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – In the\u00a0U.S., John Poindexter was found guilty of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. The convictions were later reversed on appeal.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – At Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs went on display. On the same day, the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband’s congressional term.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo’s main border crossings to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Clinton\u00a0signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> –\u00a0The Boeing X-37 conducted its first flight as a test drop at Edwards Air Force Base, CA.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 The 2017 Stockholm attack kills five and injures fifteen others.<\/p>\n History of 7 April 1922 – U.S. Secretary of Interior leased Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming. 1927 – The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. 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