Today in History for 7th April 2024

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Historical Events

1943 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1953 - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1973 - Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1980 - US President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 - "Street Songs" 5th studio album by Rick James is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1981)
2022 - MLB Cleveland Guardians lose in first game under their new name, 3-1 to the Royals in Kansas City

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Famous Birthdays

1910 - Obdulio Morales, Cuban pianist, conductor, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Afro-Cuban bandleader, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1981)
1920 - Gino Marinuzzi, Jr., Italian-American conductor, symphonic and film score composer (Le Carrosse d’or), and electronic music pioneer (Fonosynth), born in New York City (d. 1996)
1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-75 - "Capt. 'Trapper' John McIntyre"; House Calls), born in Birmingham Alabama (d. 2015)
1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician and Governor of California (Democrat: 1975-83, 2011-19), born in San Francisco, California
1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
1975 - John Cooper, American christian rock musician (Skillet), born in Memphis, Tennessee

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Famous Deaths

1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1947 - Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), dies at 83
1983 - Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
2003 - Jutta Hipp, German-American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 78
2014 - Peaches Geldof, English columnist and daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, dies of a heroin overdose at 25
2021 - Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league halfback (20 Tests; Rothmans Medal 1972; Wests, Newtown) and coach (Wests, NSW), dies from cancer at 70

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