Today in History: April 7, Rwandan genocide begins

Nowadays is Monday April the th day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On April a day after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a missile attack on their aircraft the moderate Hutu prime minister of Rwanda Agathe Uwilingiyimana and her husband were killed by Rwandan soldiers in the days that followed Hutu extremists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates Also on this date In Union forces led by Gen Ulysses S Grant and Maj Gen Don Carlos Buell defeated Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee Related Articles Currently in History April United States enters World War I years ago Gatsby got mixed reviews in Fitzgerald s hometown papers Live reading of Great Gatsby kicks off events marking th anniversary The present day in History April FDR establishes Civilian Conservation Corps This day in History April Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis In Interior Secretary Albert B Fall signed a secret deal to lease U S Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to his friends oilmen Harry F Sinclair and Edward L Doheny in exchange for cash gifts Fall would eventually be sentenced to prison on bribery and conspiracy charges in what became known as the Teapot Dome Outrage In President Dwight D Eisenhower held a news conference in which he outlined the concept of the domino theory as he spoke of the importance of containing the spread of communism in Indochina saying You have a row of dominoes set up you knock over the first one and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very promptly In the U S Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the U S Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B- crash In the Census Bureau stated that Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation s second city in terms of population In the Senate substantiated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court securing her place as the court s first Black female justice At present s Birthdays Country musician Bobby Bare is Former California Gov Jerry Brown is Film director Francis Ford Coppola is Musician John Oates is Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is Actor Jackie Chan is Football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett is Former boxer James Buster Douglas is Actor Russell Crowe is Actor-comedian Bill Bellamy is Football Hall of Famer Ronde Barber is Baseball Hall of Famer Adri n Beltr is