50 years ago: Altoona Mayor Wiliam Stoufer bounced a basketball at Penn State Altoona to kick off the annual 100-hour basketball bounce throughout the city by campus students to raise money for the Easter Seal Society. Easter Seal Child Tammy Arrowsmith attended.

25 years ago: A “Yellow Ribbon” suicide prevention workshop was to be held next week at Altoona Area High School free and open to the public. Tina Henderson of Bedford, whose 13-year-old son Eric committed suicide, was to speak at the workshop.

10 years ago: Blair County, Mark Taylor Public Safety director, was asking the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency for $42,583 for reimbursement for the cleanup of as much as 2 feet of snow from what was called “Winter Storm Jonas” in January.

World

Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2026. There are 268 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:

On April 7, 1994, a day after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi died in a missile attack on their aircraft, the moderate Hutu prime minister of Rwanda, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and her husband were killed by Rwandan soldiers; in the 100 days that followed, Hutu extremists slaughtered hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates.

On this date:

– In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell defeated Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

– In 1966, the U.S. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B-52 crash.

– In 1990, fire engulfed the Scandinavian Star as the ferry was making an overnight run from the Norwegian capital of Oslo to Frederikshavn in northern Denmark, killing 159 people in one of Scandinavia’s worst peacetime maritime disasters.