On This Day for April 7 - Jack Nicklaus's first Masters victory, Ravi Shankar is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-07 10:03 Updated: 2020-04-07 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 07

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Ravi Shankar

Jack Nicklaus blasting out of a sand trap during the second round of his record sixth win at the Masters Tournament, 1986.

FEATURED EVENT

1963

Jack Nicklaus's first Masters victory

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2012: American television journalist Mike Wallace, who was noted for his aggressive, bruising style during interviews on the long-running TV newsmagazine program 60 Minutes , died in Connecticut.

2001: NASA launched the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which reached Mars in October and transmitted photos and other data back to scientists on Earth.

1994: Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a moderate Hutu , was assassinated by Hutu soldiers—a day after the deaths of Juvénal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, president of Burundi—as Rwanda entered a period of anarchy and mass killings.

Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II

1939: American director Francis Ford Coppola—whose films include the classics The Godfather (1972), The Godfather, Part II (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979)—was born.

1939: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini made Albania a protectorate of his country, installing Italy's Victor Emmanuel III as king, while Albanian King Zog I went into exile.