What happened on 7 April?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1994 Rwandan genocide Hutu extremists murder ~800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days; international community fails to intervene.
2. 1805 Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Heroic symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon, withdrawn when he crowned himself emperor.
3. 331 BCE Alexander founds Alexandria Alexander founds Alexandria on the Egyptian coast; later capital of the Ptolemies and Hellenistic centre of learning.
4. 1948 World Health Organization founded The UN creates a global health agency that would lead campaigns against smallpox, polio and pandemics.
5. 1920 Born: Ravi Shankar Sitar virtuoso who brought Indian classical music to global audiences.
6. 1770 Born: William Wordsworth Lake Poet whose Lyrical Ballads inaugurated English Romanticism.
7. 1915 Born: Billie Holiday Jazz singer of indelible phrasing and emotional power.
8. 1767 Ayutthaya Kingdom ends Conventional end of Ayutthaya Kingdom.
9. 1348 Charles University founded Charles IV founds central Europe's first university in Prague, the model for Kraków, Vienna and Heidelberg — and later the crucible of the Hussite movement.