What are the important events that happened on April 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 7 is the 97th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 25, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,743,984,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontaheptagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 316 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,490 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 7 Historical Events
- 1348 –Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1927 –First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1939 –World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 1945 –World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
- 1969 –The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 1977 –German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1978 –Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1994 –Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
Who were born on April 7?
- 1853 –Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (d. 1884)
- 1867 –Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- 1886 –Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- 1889 –Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
- 1929 –Joe Gallo, American gangster (d. 1972)
- 1941 –James Di Pasquale, American composer
- 1949 –John Oates, American rock guitarist and lyricst (Hall & Oates)
- 1965 –Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
- 1975 –Ronde Barber, American football player
- 1982 –Sonjay Dutt, American professional wrestler
Who died on April 7?
- 1638 –Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
- 1663 –Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c.1583)
- 1766 –Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
- 1850 –William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
- 1868 –Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
- 1871 –Alexander Loyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
- 1972 –Abeid Karume, first president of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
- 1985 –Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1888)
- 1992 –Antonis Tritsis, Greek politician (b. 1937)
- 2001 –David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
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