April 7

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• 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, the only one at the federal level.
• 1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.

[edit] Births

• 1870 - Gustav Landauer, Jewish anarchist and communist. (d. 1919)

[edit] Deaths

• 1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• 1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
• 1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1947 - Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)