📜 This Day in History
April 7
1655After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII.- 1896An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.
- 1948The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.
- 1972Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
- 1994A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
- 2017A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
