April 7

Today in History
• 0451 - Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
• 1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1348 - Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
• 1509 - France declares war on Venice
• 1521 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
• 1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
• 1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
• 1789 - Mississippi Territory organized


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Good Friday
• Karume Day
• Metric System Day
• Mozambican National Women's Day
• National Beer Day
• Public Television Day
• Walk to Work Day
• World Health Day

Birthdays
• 1506 - Francis Xavier, saint and Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, and Japan
• 1622 - Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V and Elizabeth Stuart
• 1629 - Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general and governor of Netherlands
• 1756 - Charles Felix, King of Sardina, 1821-31
• 1775 - Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
• 1859 - Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale
• 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company
• 1882 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor