Historical Events on April 7

U.S. captured Baghdad

Here are some historical events that took place on April 7:

1922 - The Teapot Dome scandal began in the United States when Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased government-owned oil reserves to private oil companies without competitive bidding.

1933 - Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1948 - The World Health Organization (WHO) was established by the United Nations.

1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his "domino theory" speech, explaining the United States' stance on containing communism in Southeast Asia.

1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: RFC 1 was published, the first in a series of Request for Comments documents that eventually led to the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.

1994 - The Rwandan Genocide began. Over the course of about 100 days, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were killed by Hutu extremists.

2001 - Mars Odyssey was launched by NASA. It was the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in Mars orbit until it was surpassed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2010.

2003 - U.S. troops captured Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, during the Iraq War.

2009 - The US Navy rescued Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates, ending a five-day standoff between pirates and the American crew of the Maersk Alabama.

2017 - A suicide bomb attack on the St. Petersburg metro in Russia killed 15 people and injured around 45 others.

These are just a few notable events that occurred on April 7 throughout history.