On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
In 1939, Italy invaded Albania in World War II.
In 1947, a 23-day U.S. nationwide telephone strike began.
In 1948, the World Health Organization was founded.
In 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ”South Pacific” opened on Broadway.
In 1966, the United States recovered a hydrogen bomb lost in the collision of a B-52 with a KC-135 tanker during a refueling operation off the coast of Spain.
In 1976, China`s leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping and appointed Hu Yaobang chairman of the Communist Party.
In 1977, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the use of the flame retardant Tris in children`s apparel because of laboratory tests showing the chemical caused cancer in animals.
In 1980, the United States announced it was breaking off diplomatic relations with Iran in the wake of the embassy hostage crisis.
In 1983, crew members of the shuttle Challenger performed a spacewalk, the first by U.S. astronauts in nine years.
