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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_7" title="April 7">April 7</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Beer_Day_(United_States)" title="National Beer Day (United States)">National Beer Day</a></b> in the United States
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union forces</a> defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate troops</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh" title="Battle of Shiloh">Battle of Shiloh</a></b>, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardin_County,_Tennessee" title="Hardin County, Tennessee">Hardin County, Tennessee</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949" title="1949">1949</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodgers_and_Hammerstein" title="Rodgers and Hammerstein">Rodgers and Hammerstein</a> musical <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(musical)" title="South Pacific (musical)">South Pacific</a></b></i>, based on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_South_Pacific" title="Tales of the South Pacific">Tales of the South Pacific</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Michener" title="James A. Michener">James Michener</a>, opened on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – Reverend <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_W._Klunder" title="Bruce W. Klunder">Bruce W. Klunder</a></b> was killed by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer" title="Bulldozer">bulldozer</a> while he was protesting the construction of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" title="Racial segregation in the United States">segregated</a> school in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland, Ohio</a>, U.S.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994" title="1994">1994</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Civil_War" title="Rwandan Civil War">Rwandan Civil War</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide" title="Rwandan genocide">Rwandan genocide</a></b> began a few hours after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana_and_Cyprien_Ntaryamira" title="Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira">the assassination</a> of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juv%C3%A9nal_Habyarimana" title="Juvénal Habyarimana">Juvénal Habyarimana</a>, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s, the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral_Space_Force_Station" title="Cape Canaveral Space Force Station">Cape Canaveral</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berengar_I_of_Italy" title="Berengar I of Italy">Berengar I of Italy</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Ray" title="Martha Ray">Martha Ray</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1779); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lyons" title="Joseph Lyons">Joseph Lyons</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1939); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Arneson" title="Dave Arneson">Dave Arneson</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2009)</p>
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