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April 7th, 2003EventU.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein s regime falls two days later.
April 7th, 2001EventMars Odyssey is launched.
April 7th, 1999EventThe World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
April 7th, 1994EventMassacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
April 7th, 1992EventRepublika Srpska announces its independence.
April 7th, 1990EventIran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).
April 7th, 1989EventSoviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
April 7th, 1985EventSoviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
April 7th, 1983EventDuring STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
April 7th, 1978EventDevelopment of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

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