Historical Events for 7th April 2025

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1498 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1862 - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1917 - J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" premieres in London
1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1985 - Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
1996 - Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya hits the fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs Pakistan in Singapore
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers , Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
2018 - Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers 1993-94
2020 - China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
2020 - Australia's highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell

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