April 7th, 1956

Born on April 7th, 1956

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What happened on April 7th, 1956?

April 7th, 1956

Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain

What else happened on April 7th?

April 7th, 2017

A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.

April 7th, 1995

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

April 7th, 1994

Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.

April 7th, 1979

Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

April 7th, 1972

Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.

April 7th, 1964

Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

April 7th, 1949

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.

April 7th, 1948

The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.

April 7th, 1945

World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Ten-Go in the East China Sea.

April 7th, 1926

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson.

April 7th, 1896

An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.

April 7th, 1862

American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in Hardin County, Tennessee.

April 7th, 1655

After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII (pictured).

April 7th, 2001

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 7th

Born on April 7th, 1956

68

Siegfried Schneider

German politician (1956–)

*April 7th, 1956, Hitzhofen

68

Kees Prins

Actor of the Netherlands

*April 7th, 1956, Heemstede

68

Georg Werthner

Decathlete

*April 7th, 1956, Linz

68

Christopher Darden

American lawyer

*April 7th, 1956, Martinez

68

Annika Billström

Swedish politician

*April 7th, 1956, Härnösands domkyrkoförsamling

68

Maria Johansson

Swedish actress

*April 7th, 1956, Brännkyrka parish

68

Valentin Ganev

Bulgarian actor and director

*April 7th, 1956, Ruse

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 7th?

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

60

Russell Crowe

New Zealand actor

*April 7th, 1964, Wellington

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

61

Daniel Toscan du Plantier

French film producer

*April 7th, 1941, Chambéry †February 11th, 2003, Berlin

72

Clarke Peters

American actor, singer, writer and director

*April 7th, 1952, New York City

53

Veit Rosenberger

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 7th, 1963, Meckesheim †September 1st, 2016, Meckesheim

62

Robert Wells

Swedish pianist, composer and singer

*April 7th, 1962, Stockholm

51

Bob Berg

American jazz saxophonist (1951–2002)

*April 7th, 1951, Brooklyn †December 5th, 2002, Amagansett

24

Jimena Riadigos

Argentinian Beach handball player

*April 7th, 2000, Mar del Plata

73

Janis Ian

American singer-songwriter

*April 7th, 1951, The Bronx

85

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

41

Franck Ribéry

French association football player

*April 7th, 1983, Boulogne-sur-Mer

48

Kevin Alejandro

American actor and film director

*April 7th, 1976, San Antonio

67

Gabriela Mistral

Chilean poet, diplomat and educator

*April 7th, 1889, Vicuña †January 10th, 1957, Hempstead

67

Ezra Buzzington

American actor

*April 7th, 1957, Muncie

62

Stan Winston

American special make-up effects artist

*April 7th, 1946, Arlington County †June 15th, 2008, Malibu

39

KC Concepcion

Filipina actress and singer (born 1985)

*April 7th, 1985, Manila

80

Makoto Kobayashi

Japanese theoretical physicist (1944-)

*April 7th, 1944, Nagoya

44

Billie Holiday

American jazz singer (1915–1959)

*April 7th, 1915, Philadelphia †July 17th, 1959, New York City

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

68

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Inge Aures

German politician

*July 10th, 1956, Presseck

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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