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 98th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 25, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,540,800 minutes 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 ‘enneacontaoctagon’ day.
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 297 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 4,125 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 7 Historical Events
- 1724 –Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1776 –Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1922 –Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- 1933 –Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
- 1969 –The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- 1983 –During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1989 –Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
Who were born on April 7?
- 1899 –Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
- 1913 –Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1915 –Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
- 1917 –R. G. Armstrong, American actor
- 1935 –Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
- 1944 –Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
- 1946 –Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and film director (d. 2008)
- 1979 –Patrick Crayton, American football player
- 1986 –Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
- 1989 –Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer
Who died on April 7?
- 1614 –El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
- 1661 –Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
- 1739 –Dick Turpin, English highwayman (b. 1705)
- 1850 –William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
- 1928 –Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
- 1960 –Henri Guisan, General of the Swiss Army during World War II (b. 1874)
- 1985 –Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1888)
- 1990 –Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
- 2002 –John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2007 –Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
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