On This Day April 7th

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April 7th is the Ninety-seventh Day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 268 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.

529 – The First Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in jurisprudence, was issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

1141 – Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English."

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

1788 – Settlers established Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.

1798—The Mississippi Territory was organized from disputed territory claimed by the United States and the Spanish Empire. It was expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

1862 – American Civil War: The Union's Army of Tennessee and the Army of Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.

1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies excessively generously.

1933—Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer containing no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution. (This day is now celebrated National Beer Day in the United States.)

2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

 

Birthdays

1539 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (d. 1584)

1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1801)

1811 – Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1881)

1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)

1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, the Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)

1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959)

1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and

 

Holidays And Observance

International Beaver Day

International Beaver Day was created in 2009 by Beavers Wetlands & Wildlife (B.W.W.). April 7 was chosen as the date for the holiday because it marks the birthday of Dorothy Richards — popularly known as the ‘Beaver Woman’ —born in 1894. Richards engaged in the study of beavers for 50 years of her life.

Beavers, fascinating semiaquatic rodents, are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in countries like Canada, Poland, Germany, France, central Russia, and southern Scandinavia. They are the second-largest semi-aquatic rodents on earth, second only to capybaras. With their large heads, stout bodies, and brown or gray fur, they are a unique sight. Their hand-like front and webbed back feet are specially adapted for their semi-aquatic lifestyle.

Beavers, as keystone species, play a crucial role in the environment. They utilize the trees they consume by constructing dams and lodges with the leftover parts and transporting other materials such as mud, rocks, and debris. Due to their significant impact, their population decline in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a cause for concern. From a reported 60 million beavers in North America, their numbers have dwindled to around 10 to 15 million, underscoring the need for their conservation.

 

Others Include.

Coffee Cake Day

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide

Empowered Women Entrepreneurs Day

Geologists Day

International Beaver Day

International Snail Papers Day

Metric System Day

National Beer Day

National Girl Me Too Day

National Handmade Day

National Making the First Move Day

National Pet Health Insurance Day

No Housework Day

Public Television Day

Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action

World Health Day

World Health Organization Day

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