April 7: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1141 - Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'
2. 1788 - American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
3. 1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
4. 1927 - First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
5. 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
6. 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
7. 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
8. 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
9. 2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
10. 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
11. Famous Birthdays: William Wordsworth (English poet), Charles Fourier (French philosopher), Will Keith Kellogg (American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company), Gabriela Mistral (Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate), Marjory Stoneman Douglas (American journalist and activist)

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