Wednesday, April 07th
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On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. (Go to article.)
On April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday, who is considered to have been one of the great American jazz singers, was born. Following her death on July 17, 1959, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On April 7, 1883, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Jay Gould and Wall Street. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
1927 An audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1939 Italy invaded Albania.
1947 Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.
1948 The World Health Organization was founded.
1949 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway.
1953 The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.
1969 The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1976 China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping.
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 Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.
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 gay marriage.
Current Birthdays
Jerry Brown turns 72 years old today.
AP Photo/Nick Ut California Attorney General and former Gov. Jerry Brown turns 72 years old today.
90 Ravi Shankar
Musician
82 James Garner
Actor
77 Wayne Rogers
Actor ("M*A*S*H")
71 Francis Ford Coppola
Director
71 David Frost
TV journalist
66 Gerhard Schroeder
Former chancellor of Germany
61 Mitch Daniels
Governor of Indiana
61 John Oates
Rock singer (Hall and Oates)
59 Janis Ian
Singer
56 Tony Dorsett
Football Hall of Famer
46 Russell Crowe
Actor
45 Bill Bellamy
Actor
35 Ronde Barber
Football player
35 Tiki Barber
Football player, sportscaster
Historic Birthdays
Billie Holiday
4/7/1915 - 7/17/1959
American jazz singer from the 1930's to the 1950's
(Go to obit.)
46 St. Francis Xavier
4/7/1506 - 12/3/1552
Spanish Roman Catholic missionary
80 William Wordsworth
4/7/1770 - 4/23/1850
English Romantic poet; poet laureate of England (1843-50)
38 Jens Peter Jacobsen
4/7/1847 - 4/30/1885
Danish novelist
82 Randall Davidson
4/7/1848 - 5/25/1930
English religious leader
91 W. K. Kellogg
4/7/1860 - 10/6/1951
American industrialist and founder of the W.K. Kellogg Company
61 John McGraw
4/7/1873 - 2/25/1934
American baseball player and manager of the New York Giants (1902-1932)
72 Sir David Low
4/7/1891 - 9/19/1963
New Zealand-born English journalist, political cartoonist and caricaturist
76 Allen Dulles
4/7/1893 - 1/29/1969
American diplomat and director of the C.I.A. (1953-61)
51 Benny Leonard
4/7/1896 - 4/18/1947
American lightweight boxing champion (1917-1925)
75 Walter Winchell
4/7/1897 - 2/20/1972
American journalist and broadcaster
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