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today is the 7th of april
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney

1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service

1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg

1948 World Health Organization established by UN

1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)

1978 President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis


1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for 1st time

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fort Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM

and no...posting your birthday is not an event worthy of this thread

529 - The Corpus Juris Civilis gets published in the Byzantium Empire (base for the Angelsaxon law-system)

1613 - birth of Gerard Dou, Dutch artpainter

1906 - The Vesuvius erupts

1929 - birth of Francis Ford Coppola

1948 - The World Health Organisation gets founded

Apr 7 1948
Twenty Buddhist monks in Shanghai are immolated as their monastery burns.

Apr 7 1970

The X-rated movie Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for Best Picture.

Apr 7 1989

Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Norwegian sea, with two nuclear reactors and two nuclear torpedoes aboard. 41 crewmembers die, and the submarine remains one mile below the surface of the ocean, with its nuclear weapons intact.

Apr 7 1994

Courtney Love arrested on drug charges in Beverly Hills. What a surprise!

Apr 7 1998

Wendy O. Williams, former porn star and singer for The Plasmatics, kills herself with a gun near her Connecticut home.

Apr 7 1998

Pop singer George Michael is arrested by an undercover police officer after wanking in front him in a public toilet. One of our rotten.com staffers has checked out the restroom (at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills) and reports that it continues to be "cruisy."

Apr 7 1999

A bomb goes off in the "Valley of the Fallen" church, which is carved into a mountainside north of Madrid. The church houses the mortal remains of dictator Francisco Franco. The terrorist group GRAPO claims responsibility, and while there were no injuries, the damage was extensive.

Apr 7 2155

First Contact between humans and the prominently-coiffured Centauri Alliance. (Babylon 5 timeline)

1827: Matches go on sale for the first time, produced by John Walker in Stockton, England

1906: Italian volcano 'Versuvius' erupts

1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

April 7th 1320

The entire Scottish nobilty and Royal household wake up with hangovers that would crush mere mortals after a bevvy of biblical proportions to celebrate the declaration of independence signed the previous day in Arbroath Abbey.

April 7th 2005

MC Mike posts in a thread where too many people followed the same trend and now makes the whole thing all too confusing.