April 7
People born on this day are Aries.
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First release of Git distributed version control system.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
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Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
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The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
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A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.
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A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
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U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
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Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
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COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
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COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
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COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
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1997Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
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1996Emerson Hyndman, American international soccer player
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1994Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater
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1994Aaron Gray, Australian rugby league player
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1994Josh Hader, American baseball player
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1993Ichinojō Takashi, Mongolian sumo wrestler
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1992Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer
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1991Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer
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1991Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter
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1990Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican sprinter
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1990Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player
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1990Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer
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