Today in History - History - April 7th

1986Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy

1724Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig

2003U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

1969Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4

197042nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win

196327th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286

1979Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers

1943Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg

1996Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic

195115th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280

1920Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012)

1929"Crazy" Joe Gallo, Brooklyn New York, American mobster

1964Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)

1954Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)

1921French president Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20)

1920Country singer Jimmie Rodgers (22) weds Carrie Williamson

1979Country singer Rosanne Cash (23) weds singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell (28)

1940Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya

1972"Crazy" Joe Gallo, American mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party by rival mobsters

2012Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality, dies at 93