Historical timeline for April 7

Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.

COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.

COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.

COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.

Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.

Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.

U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.

A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.

A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.

The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.

Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

First release of Git distributed version control system.

Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt.

Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.

NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.

Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.