Today In History

Fri., April 7, 2000

In 1862: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

In 1945: During World War II, American planes intercepted a Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission.

In 1953: The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.

In 1969: The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.

In 1994: Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu intellectuals were slaughtered.

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