Today is April 7. On this date in:
1788
An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.
1862
Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
Our history:Hickenlooper proved his mettle at the Battle of Shiloh
1927
The image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1933
The Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect, allowing the sale of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent, in the first legalization of alcohol in the U.S. since Prohibition went into effect in 1920. (April 7 is celebrated annually as National Beer Day in honor of the Cullen-Harrison Act.)
More:Our history: The day beer-chugging Cincinnati cried
1940
The Post Office Department issued a stamp honoring educator Booker T. Washington, making him the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.
1948
The World Health Organization was founded in Geneva.
1954
President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a news conference in which 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 quickly.”
1962
Nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason.
1966
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-52 crash.
1978
President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.
1983
Space shuttle astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson went on the first U.S. spacewalk in almost a decade as they worked in the open cargo bay of Challenger for nearly four hours.
1984
The Census Bureau reported Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation’s “second city” in terms of population.
1990
The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati and its director, Dennis Barrie, were indicted on obscenity charges for displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial photographs. Barrie and the CAC were acquitted.
1994
Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates were slaughtered by Hutu extremists.
2001
Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black man wanted on misdemeanor charges, was shot and killed by Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach, leading to three days of rioting and unrest.
2001
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million-mile journey to the Red Planet.
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