On this day in history, April 7, notable events include the assassination of the moderate Hutu prime minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and her husband by Rwandan soldiers in 1994, triggering the genocide that resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and Hutu moderates. In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell defeated Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall signed a secret deal in 1922 to lease U.S. Navy petroleum reserves in exchange for cash gifts, leading to the Teapot Dome Scandal. President Dwight D. Eisenhower outlined the “domino theory” in 1954 in relation to containing the spread of communism in Indochina. In 1966, the U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb lost in a B-52 crash off Spain. Los Angeles surpassed Chicago as the nation’s “second city” in terms of population in 1984. In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black female Supreme Court justice. Birthdays for April 7 include country musician Bobby Bare (90), former California Gov. Jerry Brown (87), film director Francis Ford Coppola (86), musician John Oates (77), singer-songwriter Janis Ian (74), actor Jackie Chan (71), football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett (71), former boxer James “Buster” Douglas (65), actor Russell Crowe (61), actor-comedian Bill Bellamy (60), football Hall of Famer Ronde Barber (50), and baseball Hall of Famer Adrián Beltré (46).
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