April 7

2024 Calendar

April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

451 - Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
1141 - Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England.
1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Cebu.
1655 - Fabio Chigi is elected to become Pope Alexander VII.
1767 - End of two-year Burmese-Siamese War.
1782 – Thailand became a country.
1788 - American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the meeting point of the Ohio River and Muskingum River, opening the westward expansion of the United States.
1789 - Selim III becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain.
1805 - Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony in Vienna.
1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 - Joseph Smith begins his translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 - Pedro I of Brazil resigns to become King of Portugal.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh ends in a Union victory.
1896 - Fridtjof Nansen reaches the point furthest North of any human being up until that point.

1901 – 1950

1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1919 - The Federation Francais de Football is founded.
1927 - The first long-distance television broadcast is made from Washington, DC to New York City.
1933 - Prohibition in the United States is removed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.
1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a US postage stamp.
1943 - Holocaust: In Trebovlia, Ukraine, Nazi troops order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city to the village of Plebanivka, where they are shot dead.
1943 - Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the occupation by the Axis Powers.
1945 - World War II: Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while on the way to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1946 – Syria's independence is recognised.
1948 – The United Nations created the World Health Organization.
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Domino Theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Anthony Eden replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
1967 - Roger Ebert publishes his first movie review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1968 - Scottish racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a crash at Hockenheim, Germany, aged 32.
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date.
1971 - Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troops withdrawals from Vietnam.
1977 – German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback is shot dead, along with his driver, by two members of the Red Army Faction.
1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is cancelled by US President Jimmy Carter.
1980 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran.
1983 - During STS-6 mission, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle space walk.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 42 people.
1990 - A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 198 people.
1992 – Republika Srpska declares independence.
1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins. One of the first victims is Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
1995 - First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 - The World Trade Organization rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

From 2001

2001 – The Mars Odyssey space probe is launched.
2003 – US troops capture Baghdad.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2010 – In Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the capital city Bishkek, after days of fierce rioting. Roza Otunbayeva is installed as Head of Government.
2017 - 2017 Stockholm attack: A beer lorry is driven into people in central Stockholm, killing 5 people.
2018 - A vehicle is driven into people in the city centre of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, killing 2 people. The driver then kills himself.

Births

Deaths

Up to 1900

924 - Berengar I of Italy (b. 845)
1498 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
1614 – El Greco, Greek-born Spanish painter (b. 1541)
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Governor-General (b. 1603)
1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint (b. 1651)
1739 – Dick Turpin, English outlaw (b. 1705)
1762 – Pietro Guarneri, Italian violin maker (b. 1695)
1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
1801 - Noel Francois de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1804 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743)
1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 - Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
1833 – Antoni Radziwill, Polish politician (b. 1775)
1836 - William Godwin, English journalist and writer (b. 1756)
1849 - Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine priest and politician (b. 1777)
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of the Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 - Alexander Loyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1889 - Youssef Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (b. 1823)
1891 – P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
1900 - Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (b. 1826)

1901 – 2000

1914 - Mohammad Ayub Khan, interim regent of Afghanistan (b. 1857)
1917 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
1918 - David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1930 - Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, 4th Governor of New Mexico (b. 1859)
1932 - Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
1934 - William Monroe Trotter, American newspaper editor (b. 1872)
1938 - Suzanne Valadon, French painter (b. 1865)
1939 – Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1944 - Johann Gruber, Austrian priest (b. 1889)
1947 – Henry Ford, American business person (b. 1863)
1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
1955 - Theda Bara, American actress (b. 1885)
1956 - Fred Appleby, English long-distance runner (b. 1879)
1957 - John Hart, Irish-Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia (b. 1879)
1960 - Henri Guisan, Swiss army officer (b. 1874)
1965 - Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
1966 - Fred G. Aandahl, American politician, Governor of North Dakota (b. 1897)
1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (b. 1936)
1972 – Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
1977 – Siegfried Buback, German federal prosecutor (b. 1920)
1981 - Norman Taurog, American movie director (b. 1899)
1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1984 - Frank Church, American politician (b. 1924)
1985 - Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1888)
1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet-Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
1990 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1992 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
1994 – Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1997 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (b. 1910)
2000 - Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (b. 1921)

From 2001

2003 - David Greene, British director (b. 1921)
2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Cliff Allison, Britsh racing driver (b. 1932)
2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2008 - Mark Speight, English television presenter (b. 1965)
2009 – Dave Arneson, American creator of the game Dungeons and Dragons (b. 1947)
2010 – Christopher Cazenove, British actor (b. 1945)
2012 - Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918)
2012 - Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Syrian Catholic patriarch (b. 1930)
2013 - Lilly Pulitzer, American socialite and fashion designer (b. 1931)
2013 - Les Blank, American director and producer (b. 1935)
2014 - George Dureau, American artist (b. 1930)
2014 - Frans van der Lugt, Dutch priest (b. 1938)
2014 - Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1927)
2014 - John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (b. 1931)
2014 - Peaches Geldof, English model and television host (b. 1989)
2014 - Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952)
2014 - George Shuffler, American musician (b. 1925)
2015 - Jean Germain, French politician, Mayor of Tours (b. 1947)
2015 - Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (b. 1983)
2015 - Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, Bulgarian-Spanish nobleman (b. 1962)
2015 - Stan Freberg, American writer, actor and comedian (b. 1926)
2015 - Tim Babcock, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1919)
2015 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935)
2015 - James B. Rhoads, American public servant (b. 1928)
2016 - Frank E. Denholm, American politician (b. 1923)
2016 - Carlo Monti, Italian athlete (b. 1920)
2017 - Marthe Gosteli, Swiss women's rights activist (b. 1917)
2017 - Peter Isaacson, Australian media publisher (b. 1920)
2017 - Christopher Morahan, English stage and television director (b. 1929)
2017 - Glenn O'Brien, American journalist, editor and television presenter (b. 1947)
2017 - Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor (b. 1946)
2018 - Petr Braiko, Soviet-Russian World War II soldier (b. 1919)
2018 - Peter Grünberg, German physicist (b. 1939)
2019 - Hugo Ballesteros Reyes, Chilean politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
2019 - Michael E. Busch, American politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
2019 - Arie Irawan, Malaysian golfer (b. 1990)
2019 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (b. 2002)

Holidays

Day of Maternity and Beauty in Armenia
Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
World Health Day (WHO)
Women's Day (Mozambique)

April 7

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

From 2001

Births

Up to 1850

1851 – 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Holidays