April 7 in history: • 1831 – Pedro II became emperor of the Empire of Brazil. → go there • 1926 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson. → go there • 1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt. → go there • 2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral. → go there Died 1201: Baha al-Din Qaraqush Wiki link Born 1803: Flora Tristan Wiki link Born 1951: Santa Barraza Wiki link Born 1989: Teddy Riner Wiki link Pictured: Artist's conception of ''2001 Mars Odyssey''.