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Events

• 451 (1575 years ago) Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
• 1798 (228 years ago) The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
• 1906 (120 years ago) The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
• 1933 (93 years ago) Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
• 1939 (87 years ago) Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
• 1948 (78 years ago) The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1956 (70 years ago) Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
• 2020 (6 years ago) COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.

Births

• 1770 (256 years ago) William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1959)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (died 2012)
• 1939 (87 years ago) Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 (82 years ago) Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
• 1954 (72 years ago) Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 (62 years ago) Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor

Deaths

• 30 (1996 years ago) Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion),
• 1498 (528 years ago) Charles VIII of France,
• 1614 (412 years ago) El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1541)
• 1789 (237 years ago) Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1725)
• 1836 (190 years ago) William Godwin, English journalist and author (born 1756)
• 1891 (135 years ago) P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (born 1810)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (born 1863)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (born 1912)

All 479 events, births and deaths of April 7