How Many Days Until April 7?

This day in history: April 7

1. 1972

   Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.

2. 1979

   Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

3. 1994

   Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.

4. 1994

   A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.

5. 1995

   First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

6. 2001

   NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.

7. 2017

   A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.

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