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Monday, April  07, 2014 AP Highlight in History:  On April 7, 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.   AP Photo/Jean Marc Bouju
On this date in: 1862 Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. 1927 the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. 1939 Italy invaded Albania. 1947 Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83. 1949 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway. 1953 The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general. 1969 The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. 1976 China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping. 1990 Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.) 1990 A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. 2001 NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet. 2001 An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots. 2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces. 2009 Vermont became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage.		Video HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today's Birthdays: California Gov. Jerry Brown turns 76 years old today. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Name Profession Age James Garner Actor 86 Wayne Rogers Actor ("M*A*S*H") 81 Francis Ford Coppola Director 75 Mitch Daniels Former governor of Indiana 65 John Oates Rock singer (Hall and Oates) 65 Janis Ian Singer 63 Tony Dorsett Football Hall of Famer 60 Russell Crowe Actor 50 Bill Bellamy Actor 49 Ronde Barber Football player 39 Tiki Barber Football player, sportscaster 39 Actor Jackie Chan turn 60 years old today. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello