WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. APRIL
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The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. (7. April 1906)

H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (7. April 1908)

Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. (7. April 1922)

First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). (7. April 1927)

Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (7. April 1933)

World War II: Italy invades Albania. (7. April 1939)

Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. (7. April 1940)

Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches. (7. April 1943)

Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation. (7. April 1943)

World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. (7. April 1945)

World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. (7. April 1945)

Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. (7. April 1946)

The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. (7. April 1948)

A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. (7. April 1948)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. (7. April 1954)

Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health. (7. April 1955)

Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco. (7. April 1956)

IBM announces the System/360. (7. April 1964)

Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times. (7. April 1967)

The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. (7. April 1969)