Lawyer Christopher Darden

Events in 1956 and 7-4

Events in US in the birth year of Christopher Darden

• Autherine Lucy, the first black student at the University of Alabama, is suspended after riots (March 1).
• U.S. tests the first aerial hydrogen bomb over Namu islet, Bikini Atoll with the force of 10 million tons TNT (May 21). Background: nuclear weapons

Birthday Christopher Darden (7-4) in history

• Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
• Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
• Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
• Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
• Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
• Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
• Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
• Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.