Today in History for 7th April 2022:
Historical Events
1973 – Doug Walters’ best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1990 – BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 – 1st night game at Cleveland’s Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1996 – Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to win Cricket’s Singer Cup in Singapore
2017 – Smurfs: The Lost Village is released in the United States
2021 – UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 American have received at least one vaccine dose
Famous Birthdays
1908 – Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1932 – Louis “Mr Bo” Collins, blues singer
1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls), born in Birmingham Alabama (d. 2015)
1936 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, born in Tel Keppe, Iraq (d. 2015)
1938 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane – “White Rabbit”; New Riders of the Purple Sage), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
1973 – Brett Tomko, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
1768 – Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1900 – Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School), dies at 73
1958 – Klimenty Arkad’yevich Korchmaryov, Ukrainian composer, dies at 58
1991 – Ruth Page, American ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), dies at 92
1992 – Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72