Today is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 2023 with 268 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars and Saturn. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Uranus and Venus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include missionary St. Francis Xavier in 1506; Pope Clement XII in 1652; English poet William Wordsworth in 1770; "Father of American Football" Walter Camp in 1859; industrialist W.K. Kellogg in 1860; CIA Director Allen Dulles in 1893; environmentalist/suffragette Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1890; gossip columnist Walter Winchell in 1897; singer Billie Holiday in 1915; sitar player Ravi Shankar in 1920; actor James Garner in 1928; former Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, in 1931 (age 92); former California Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. in 1938 (age 85); film director Francis Ford Coppola in 1939 (age 84); British TV personality David Frost in 1939; former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 1944 (age 79); musician John Oates in 1948 (age 75); singer/songwriter Janis Ian in 1951 (age 72); actor/martial arts expert Jackie Chan in 1954 (age 69); football Hall of Fame member Tony Dorsett in 1954 (age 69); actor Russell Crowe in 1964 (age 59); philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in 1970 (age 53); British astronaut Timothy Peake in 1972 (age 51); actor Nico Santos in 1979 (age 44); actor Ismael Cruz Cordova in 1987 (age 36); actor Ed Speleers in 1988 (age 35); pop singer Anne-Marie, born Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson, in 1991 (age 32).On this date in history:

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In 1862, Union forces under the command of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at Shiloh, Tenn.

In 1922, under the direction Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall, petroleum reserves at Wyoming's Teapot Dome Oil Field were leased without competitive bidding to private companies. A Senate investigation ensued, leading to a bribery case that would become known as the Teapot Dome scandal.

In 1933, less than a month after President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to permit the manufacture and sale of beer, the Volstead Act was modified to allow for this request.

In 1947, auto pioneer Henry Ford died in Detroit at the age of 83. In 1896, he built his first self-propelled, gas-engine vehicle, and in 1903 incorporated the Ford Motor Company. He is credited for developing the first affordable, mass-produced car, the Model T, and pioneering the assembly line.

In 1990, suspected arson fires aboard the ferry Scandinavian Star killed at least 75 people in Scandinavia's worst post-war maritime disaster.

In 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was re-elected to a third five-year term despite failing health since a reported stroke in August 2008. He died in 2011.

In 2011, a 23-year-old former student returned to his public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with two revolvers, killing 12 children and injuring 12 others before shooting himself in the head as police closed in.

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In 2012, broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, the CBS 60 Minutes icon, died in New Canaan, Conn. He was 93.

In 2017, the United States fired 59 Tomahawk missiles into a west Syrian airfield from where it was believed President Bashar al-Assad's regime launched a deadly chemical attack that killed and injured hundreds of civilians.

In 2018, forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a gas attack in the town of Douma, killing some 40 people.

In 2022, the Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve as justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

A thought for the day: "There are no other Everglades in the world. ... The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning of the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of glass." -- American conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas