April 7: Cheti Chand in various parts of India (2019); National Beer Day in the United States

• 1141 – Empress Matilda became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title ‘Lady of the English’.
• 1949 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
• 1994 – The Rwandan genocide began, a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured); an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the following 100 days.
• 2017 – A hijacked truck was eliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm killing five people.

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