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April 7: This Day in U.S. Military History iin the 1700s
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451     Attila's Huns sack Metz
1118     Pope Gelasius II excommunicates Emperor Henry V
1381     2nd treaty of Guerande: Yann IV of Brittany and Charles VI of France
1509     France declares war on Venice
1528     French troops defeat Cardinal Pompeo Colonna outside Gaeta, initiating an unsuccessful siege
1555     Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi elected Pope as Marcellus II (7 Apr-6 May 1555)
1625     Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander by the HRE
1652     The Fronde: Battle of Bleneau: French Royalists defeat the Frondist rebels
1655     Fabio Chigi elected Pope as Alexander VII (1655-1667)
1776     Continental brig 'Lexington' captures the British 'Edward'
1818     Gen Andrew Jackson seizes St Marks, Fla, from Seminole Indians
1831     Dom Pedro II crowned Emperor of Brazil (1825-1891)
1836     Skirmish between Texian rear guards and advancing Mexican troops at San Felipe Ford
1855     Battle of Kaba: King Cakobau of Bau, aided by King George of Tonga, completes the unification of Fiji
1862     Battle of Shiloh, Day 2: Grant defeats the Confederates
1863     First Battle of Charleston, SC: Unsuccessful USN attempt to force the harbor
1865     Battle of Farmville, Va
1917     USN takes over all wireless stations for the duration of WW I
1926     Violet Gibson, deranged daughter of Baron Ashbourne, attempts to assassinate Mussolini, but only wounds him slightly in the nose; arrested, she is released at the Duce's orders
1933     Nazis bar Jews from law & public service
1938     Battle of Taierzhuang ends: 14 days of desperate Chinese resistence cause the Japanese to fall back - their first major defeat in the "China Incident"
1939     Italy invades Albania, initiating the first combat by an armored division, the Centauro
1941     USS 'North Carolina' (BB-55) is commissioned in Brooklyn
1942     Bataan: Fil-Am troops fail to form a new defensive line
1942     Heavy Axis air attack on Malta
1942     Japanese 18th Div lands at Rangoon.
1942     Solomons: Japanese land on Bougainville
1942     USN agrees to accept black Americans for general service
1943     Japanese a/c inflict heavy losses on Allied shipping around Guadalcanal
1944     Japanese cut water supply of Anglo-Indian forces at Kohima.
1945     First Navy Nurses land on Iwo Jima: Lt, jg, Ann Purvis & Ens Jane Kendeigh
1945     Japanese BB 'Yamato' sunk off Okinawa by TF 58 a/c.
1945     Massive kamikaze attack on the US fleet off Okinawa
1946     Part of East Prussia is incorporated into the Russian SFSR
1949     Rogers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" opens at the Majestic on Broadway for 1928 performances -- Learn More
1966     US recovers lost H-bomb from sea off Palomares, Spain
1978     President Jimmy Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1980     President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran over the hostage crisis
1989     Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, c. 12 die

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