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• ...that Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invented what is now known as BASE jumping by parachuting from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783 (jump illustrated), and also coined the word parachute?
• ...that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
• ...that Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
• ...that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
• ...that the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
• ...that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
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• Two passengers remain unaccounted for after the Greek cruise ship M/S Sea Diamond (pictured) runs aground off Santorini in the Aegean Sea and sinks.
• The Royal Navy personnel accused of trespassing into Iranian waters return to the United Kingdom after a two-week detention.
• TGV POS trainset number 4402 sets a new world speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) during test runs conducted in Champagne, France.
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the parliament and calls for an early parliamentary election, a move denounced by the parliament as unconstitutional.
• A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands, killing at least 20, destroying around 900 homes and leaving thousands homeless.
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April 7: Holy Saturday in Christianity (2007); World Health Day

• 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (pictured) issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a first attempt to codify Roman law.
• 1868 - D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father Of Confederation, was assassinated — the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level.
• 1945 - World War II: The Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy was sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa during Operation Ten-Go.
• 1948 - The United Nations established the World Health Organization.
• 1969 - With publication of RFC 1, the Internet was symbolically born.

• Recent days: April 6 – April 5 – April 4

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