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1506 St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1534 Jos‚ de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians) 1613 Gerard Dou, painter (Night School) 1629 Juan Jos‚, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands 1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31) 1770 William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) 1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist 1775 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill 1780 William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman 1786 William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853) 1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882 1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1869 1822 Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers) 1859 Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale) 1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake 1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US 1870 Gustav Landauer, German socialist 1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron 1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African 1878 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God) 1882 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33) 1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority 1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolacion, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945) 1893 Allan W Dulles, US politician 1896 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25) 1897 Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) 19-- Elaine Mille, actress (Marilyn-Northern Exposure) 19-- Morris Johnson Jr, drag race car driver 19-- Shane, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash) 1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952) 1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen R”ssl) 1908 Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place) 1912 Valre Depauw, Flemish writer 1915 Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business) 1915 Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were) 1917 R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat) 1918 Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show) 1918 Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style) 1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, ‚p‚e (Olympic-gold-1952) 1919 Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance) 1920 Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India) 1924 Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show) 1926 Johannes Rood, immunologist (Eurotransplant) 1928 Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute) 1928 James Garner, Norman Okla, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick) 1928 James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer) 1930 Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers) 1931 Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon whistleblower, patriot 1931 Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness) 1933 Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs) 1934 Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike) 1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter) 1938 Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey) 1938 Yvonne Lime, Glendale Calif, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis) 1938 [Edmund] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal), Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend 1939 David Frost, Tenderdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was) 1939 Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now) 1940 Patricia Paay, singer (You are not hip) 1943 Mick Abrahams, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick) 1943 Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian) 1943 Spencer Dryden, rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice) 1946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer (Grateful Dead-Touch of Grey) 1950 Janis Ian, [Janis Fink], NYC, folk singer (Society's Child, At 17) 1952 Bruce Gary, drummer (Knack-My Sharona) 1953 Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952) 1954 Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys) 1958 Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light) 1958 Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love) 1960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes) 1962 Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy Calif, lugist 1966 Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful) 1975 Beverly Peele, model Back to GREGSITE Passings for April 0730 Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer 924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered 1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies 1614 El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown) 1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 1803 [Fran‡ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, dies 1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies 1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies 1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican rep of people, dies at 65 1891 Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey, dies at 88 1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston 1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blauwe legends), dies 1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62 1968 Jim Clark, of Scotland, former world driving champ, dies in race car 1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies 1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party 1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered 1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76 1982 Brenda Benet, actress, commits suicide by gun at 36 1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor, dies at 82 1984 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59 1984 Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 1992 Clovis Ruffin, designer, dies at 46 of AIDs 1993 Max Croiset, actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for April 07[China] Ching Ming - families gather at graves of ancestors [Haiti] World Health Day (1948) [Mozambique] Woman's Day [Yugoslavia] Republic Day (1963) [Switzerland] Glarius Festival (1388) [Mass] Student Government Day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for April 07[Orthodox] Annunciation of Mary (3/25 OS) 1719 [RC] Mem of St John Baptist de la Salle, priest, patron of teachers 1996 [Christian] Easter Sunday Back to GREGSITE Special events for April 07 Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 AM [US] National Library Week begins Golf Masters Championship (Atlanta) begins Set your clock ahead-Daylight Savings Time starts at 2 AM tomorrow 30 Scholars' reckon Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, S Africa 1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII 1712 Slave revolt (NYC) 1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta 1798 Territory of Mississippi organized 1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians 1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil 1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn 1862 H P Tuttle discovers asteroid #73 Klytia 1862 Island #10 falls after long siege, Battle of Shiloh 1863 Battle of Charleston SC 1865 Battle of Farmville VA 1880 V Knorre discovers asteroid #215 Oenone 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG) 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day 1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber 1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair 1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party 1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif) 1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose 1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC 1931 Seals Stadium opens in SF 1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment 1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic 1939 Italy annexes Albania 1940 Jimmy Demeret beats Lloyd Mangrum for the Masters 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta 1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule 1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers 1945 Kamikaze attack on fleet at Okinawa 1945 Task Force 58 sinks Jap large battleship Jamamoto (on suicide mission) 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR 1948 Rogers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" opens on Broadway 1948 World Health Organization established by UN 1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater (for 1925 performances) 1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament 1951 Ben Hogan wins Masters golf tournament 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight 1953 Dag Hammarskj”ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary 1953 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1660 Wood 1953 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids 2214 Carol, 2278, 2652 Yabuuti & 2806 1954 German govt refuses to recognize DDR 1954 Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China 1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 Philadelphia beats Fort Wayne, 4 games to 1, for NBA championship 1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years 1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif 1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail 1963 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st Masters golf tournament 1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic 1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) 1967 Progressive Rock radio begins-KMPX-FM, San Francisco 1970 J A Bruwer discovers asteroid #1794 Finsen 1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant 1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC 1978 Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb 1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water 1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis 1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec 1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead 1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk 1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 1989 NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for 1990 Farm Aid IV concert 1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal 1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth 1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 Back to GREGSITE Facts for April 0797th day of year with 268 days left (Numerology = 2) 1929 89øF highest temperature for this date in NYC 1982 21øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on April 0704/07/54 --- Little Things Mean A Lot --- Kallen, Kitty 04/07/54 --- Man Upstairs --- Starr, Kay 04/07/56 --- Ivory Tower --- Carr, Cathy 04/07/56 --- Long Tall Sally --- Little Richard 04/07/58 --- There's Only One Of You --- Four Lads 04/07/58 --- Twilight Time --- Platters 04/07/58 --- Return To Me --- Martin, Dean 04/07/58 --- Believe What You Say --- Nelson, Ricky 04/07/58 --- Book Of Love --- Monotones 04/07/62 --- Stranger On The Shore --- Bilk, Acker Mr. 04/07/62 --- Twist, Twist Senora --- Bonds, Gary "U.S." 04/07/62 --- She Cried --- Jay & The Americans 04/07/79 --- Love Is The Answer --- England Dan & John Ford Coley 04/07/90 --- Hold On --- Wilson Phillips 04/07/90 --- This Old Heart Of Mine --- Stewart, Rod |
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