On This Day:
Tuesday April 7, 2015 This is the 97th day of the year, with 268 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: presidents and transportation The first president to ride in a car was Theodore Roosevelt in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1902. The first president to fly in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt in 1943 from Miami, Florida, to French Morocco. The first president to fly an aircraft was Theodore Roosevelt who was a passenger in a Wright biplane in 1910. The first president to hold an airplane pilot's license was Dwight Eisenhower. Theodore Roosevelt was probably the first president to "own" a car, also.
Holidays Feast day of St. Celsus, St. Goran, St. Finan Cam, St. George the Younger, St. Hegesippus, St. Aphraates, St. Henry Walpole, St. Herman Joseph, and St. John Baptist de la Salle.
United Nations: World Health Day.
New York: Verrazano Day.
Rwanda: Genocide Remembrance Day.
Events 1652 - The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1795 - The metric system was adopted in France, where it had been developed.
1798 - The territory of Mississippi was organized.
1862 - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
1906 - The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted.
1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation ending Prohibition in the United States.
1948 - The World Health Organization was founded.
1953 - The United Nations General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be Secretary-General.
1957 - The last of New York's electric trolleys ran from Queens to Manhattan.
1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic and proclaimed Josip Broz Tito the president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 - The European Community formally recognized the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the planet.
Births 1506 - St. Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary.
1770 - William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet and poet laureate of England (1843-50)
1859 - Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football."
1860 - W.K. Kellogg, American industrialist and founder of the W.K. Kellogg Company.
1897 - Walter Winchell, American vaudeville performer, journalist, gossip columnist, radio commentator.
1915 - Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan), American jazz singer.
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American Academy Award-winning director.
1954 - Jackie Chan, Chinese martial artist, and action film actor.
1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand film actor.
Deaths 1891 - P. T. Barnum (born Phineas Taylor Barnum), American showman, and founder of the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
1947 - Henry Ford, American car manufacturer.
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id.
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