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April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 268 days remain until the end of the year.
March 4 – Houston's first sit-in, led by Texas Southern University students, was held at Weingarten supermarket, located at 4110 Almeda in Houston, Texas. March 9 – An Appeal for Human Rights was published. March 15 – The Atlanta sit-ins begin. March 19 – San Antonio becomes the first city to integrate lunch counters.
October–November – Great Fires of 1947: Forest fires in Maine consume more than 200,000 acres of wooded land statewide, including over 17,000 acres on Mount Desert Island alone. 16 persons are killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed in the blazes, with total property damage exceeding $23 million.
Corwin Amendment. Star of the West; Battle of Fort Sumter. Secession; Confederate States. This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
April 4 – The Wall Street Journal announced the Digital Watch was on sale. April 7 – Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy Jr. hijacks a United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000; he is later captured. [1] April 10 The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.
Event. 1819. 29 January. Sir Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a trading post for the British East India Company . 6 February. The treaty is signed between Sultan Hussein of Johor, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sir Stamford Raffles . William Farquhar is installed as the first Resident of the settlement .
This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2023) Part of a series on the History of Colombia Timeline Pre-Columbian period pre-1499 Spanish colonization 1499–1550 New Kingdom of Granada 1550–1717 Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717–1819 United Provinces of New Granada 1810–1816 Gran Colombia 1819–1831 ...