April 7th, 1979

Born on April 7th, 1979

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What happened on April 7th, 1979?

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda–Tanzania_War

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, 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.

April 7th, 1824

The Mechanics' Institution is established in Manchester, England at the Bridgewater Arms hotel, as part of a national movement for the education of working men. The institute is the precursor to three Universities in the city: the University of Manchester, UMIST and the Metropolitan University of Manchester (MMU).

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

Born on April 7th, 1979

45

Adrián Beltré

Major League baseball player

*April 7th, 1979, Santo Domingo

45

Nicole Fiorentino

American bass guitarist

*April 7th, 1979, Ludlow

45

Kyle Hill

American basketball player

*April 7th, 1979, Chicago

45

Pascal Dupuis

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 7th, 1979, Laval

45

Danny Sandoval

Venezuelan baseball player

*April 7th, 1979, Barquisimeto

45

Chris Gbandi

Liberian footballer

*April 7th, 1979, Bong County

45

Patrick Crayton

American football player, wide receiver, kick returner

*April 7th, 1979, Waxahachie

45

Ruth Núñez

Spanish actress

*April 7th, 1979, Nerja

25

Rafael Peralta

United States Marine recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions in Iraq

*April 7th, 1979, Mexico City †November 15th, 2004, Fallujah

45

Zbych Trofimiuk

Australian actor

*April 7th, 1979, Warsaw

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

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

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

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

60

Russell Crowe

New Zealand actor

*April 7th, 1964, Wellington

24

Jimena Riadigos

Argentinian Beach handball player

*April 7th, 2000, Mar del Plata

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

39

KC Concepcion

Filipina actress and singer (born 1985)

*April 7th, 1985, Manila

61

Daniel Toscan du Plantier

French film producer

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

53

Veit Rosenberger

German historian of classical antiquity

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

43

Alex Lanipekun

British actor

*April 7th, 1981, London

62

Robert Wells

Swedish pianist, composer and singer

*April 7th, 1962, Stockholm

46

Duncan James

English singer

*April 7th, 1978, Salisbury

27

Oliver Burke

Scottish association football player (born 1997)

*April 7th, 1997, Kirkcaldy

35

Teddy Riner

French judoka

*April 7th, 1989, Les Abymes

72

Clarke Peters

American actor, singer, writer and director

*April 7th, 1952, New York City

68

Siegfried Schneider

German politician (1956–)

*April 7th, 1956, Hitzhofen

44

David Otunga

American professional wrestler

*April 7th, 1980, Elgin

85

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

53

Victor Kraatz

Canadian ice dancer

*April 7th, 1971, West Berlin

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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