April 7 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for April 7
In the headlines today:

2007	Artist Johnny Hart, creator of the 'B.C.' newspaper comic strip, dies at his Albany, New York, home at age 76.
2001		Paul McCartney buys a 1930s-era, four-bedroom Beverly Hills home from rock singer Courtney Love for nearly $4 million. (photo credit: EMI)
1990	158 passengers and crew are killed when fire breaks out aboard a Norway-to-Denmark ferry.
1963	Jack Nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters Tournament, at age 23.
1959	Electric power is generated by atomic energy for the first time (Los Alamos, New Mexico).
1955	West Germany is granted sovereignty.
1948	The World Health Organization is organized.
1947	Auto maker Henry Ford dies in Dearborn, MI, at age 83.
1933	Beer and wine become legal beverages in the US, ending 13 years of Prohibition.
1900	Artist Frederic Church dies.
1891	Showman P.T. Barnum dies. ("Never give a sucker an even break!")
1862	Union troops defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh (TN) during the US Civil War.
1827	The first friction matches are sold in England.
1798	Mississippi becomes a US territory.
1614	The artist known as El Greco (Domenico Theotocopuli) dies.
30	Jesus Christ is crucified.