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, 484,440 hours 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
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1788 –American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1908 –H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1946 –Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1956 –Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
- 1976 –Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
- 2001 –Mars Odyssey is launched.
Who were born on April 7?
- 1539 –Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
- 1613 –Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
- 1870 –Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1886 –Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- 1929 –Joe Gallo, American gangster (d. 1972)
- 1944 –Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 –Martyn Lewis, British newsreader
- 1965 –Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
- 1966 –Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
- 1980 –Dragan Bogavac, Montenegrin footballer
Who died on April 7?
- 1651 –Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
- 1663 –Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c.1583)
- 1668 –William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
- 1811 –Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
- 1885 –Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
- 1928 –Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
- 1955 –Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
- 1968 –Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1936)
- 2007 –Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Mark Speight, English television presenter (b. 1965)
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