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Events on April 7

• 1348 The German King Charles IV founds the Alma Mater Carolina in Prague as the first German university and the first university north of the Alps.
• 1724 The St. John Passion (BWV 245) by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig.
• 1805 The 3rd Symphony (Eroica) by Ludwig van Beethoven is performed publicly for the first time at the Theater an der Wien under the composer's direction.
• 1919 The Bavarian Soviet Republic is proclaimed in Munich. The Bavarian government of Minister-President Johannes Hoffmann flees to Bamberg and calls on troops of the Reich and from Württemberg to help suppress the rebellion.
• 1948 With the ratification by the 26th state, the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), adopted by the United Nations in New York on July 22, 1946, enters into force. The WHO is thus considered to have been founded.
• 1964 IBM introduces the System/360 mainframe. This computer system provides a platform for the first time that enables scaling of computing performance while maintaining application compatibility. Many concepts of the System/360 remain the basis of IBM's mainframe families to this day.
• 1969 RFC 1, titled Host Software, is published. This can be regarded as the birth of the internet.
• 1977 German Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback is shot dead by RAF terrorists in Karlsruhe. His driver Wolfgang Göbel also dies in the assassination. Georg Wurster, the fleet-readiness manager, dies from his injuries a few days later.
• 1989 In the longest tennis match in Davis Cup history since the introduction of the tie-break, the Austrian Horst Skoff defeats the Swede Mats Wilander at the Ferry Dusika Stadium in Vienna in 6 hours and 4 minutes, 6-7, 7-6, 1-6, 6-4, 9-7.
• 1994 One of the first victims of the genocide in Rwanda is Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, who is murdered in her home by Hutu militia together with Belgian UN soldiers from UNAMIR who were assigned to protect her. Colonel Théoneste Bagosora takes power in the state.
• 2001 From Cape Canaveral, the NASA space probe Mars Odyssey, named after Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, is launched aboard a Delta II carrier rocket to explore Mars.
• 2006 After exactly 6 months, the longest strike in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, organized by the Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten union at Gate Gourmet in Düsseldorf, comes to an end. The parties to the dispute conclude a collective bargaining agreement.

Born on April 7

• 1860 Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist
• 1882 Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, Reich Chancellor
• 1891 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish art craftsman and toy maker, inventor of Lego bricks
• 1922 Klaus Havenstein, German actor
• 1930 Yves Rocher, French entrepreneur
• 1930 Ulrich Thein, German actor and director
• 1931 Daniel Ellsberg, American author, economist and political scientist
• 1960 Norbert Schramm, German figure skater
• 1961 Marco Rima, Swiss actor and cabaret artist
• 1983 Franck Ribéry, French footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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