Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7

April 7: Holy Saturday in Christianity (2007); World Health Day

Byzantine Emperor Justinian I

• 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.

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