TODAY IN HISTORY – 7th April, 2026 – Africa World News
By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
Take history seriously and you would understand why a lot of things take the shape of recurring decimals. But maybe what is most important is the conscious effort we put into place to ensure the terrible ones do not reoccur.
Take a moment to behold some remarkably relatable events that took place today in history.
Today in history, 1805, German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
On this day in 1940, Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Still on this day in 1943, the Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
It was on this day in 1948, that the World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
Today in 1956, Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
According to Today in History, it was on this day in 1964 that IBM announced the System/360.
Regrettable today in 1968, two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark died in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.
In 1969, on this day, the Internet’s symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
Amazingly on this day in 1983, during STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson performed the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
Sadly, on this day in 1994, Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers killed the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
Again on this day in 1994, Auburn Calloway attempted to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
Still on this day in 2001, NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
It was on this day in 2020 that I’m the course of the COVID-19 pandemic: China ended its lockdown in Wuhan.
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