Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2015. There are 268 days left in the year.
451 ― Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz
1348 ― Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)
1827 ― English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1943 ― Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1949 ― Rogers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opens at Majestic Theater (for 1,928 performances)
1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears “domino-effect” in Indo-China
1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1988 ― Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi’s killing Jews) for first time