Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7

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 * 1655 – After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII (pictured).
 * 1896 – An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.
 * 1926 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson.
 * 1945 – World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Ten-Go in the East China Sea.
 * 1948 – The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.
 * 1972 – Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
 * 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.
 * 1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
 * 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
 * 2017 – A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
 * Born/died: | George the Standard-Bearer |d|821| El Greco |d|1614| John Sheffield |b|1648|  Toussaint Louverture |d|1803| Randall Davidson |b|1848|  Marjory Stoneman Douglas |b|1890| John Bernard Flannagan |b|1895| Bert Ironmonger |b|1882| Santa Barraza |b|1951|Nuno Mendes  |b|1978|Humza Yousaf |b|1985|