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 97^th 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.

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.

April 7 Historical Events

• 1541 –
  Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
• 1922 –
  Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
• 1927 –
  First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 1943 –
  Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
• 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.
• 1954 –
  President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
• 1976 –
  Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 1990 –
  Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
• 1994 –
  Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.

Who were born on April 7?

• 1539 –
  Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
• 1860 –
  Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
• 1897 –
  Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
• 1919 –
  Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
• 1919 –
  Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
• 1929 –
  Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
• 1935 –
  Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
• 1936 –
  Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
• 1941 –
  Gorden Kaye, British actor
• 1979 –
  Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player

Who died on April 7?

• 1614 –
  El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
• 1658 –
  Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
• 1767 –
  Franz Sparry, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
• 1939 –
  Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1947 –
  Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
• 1972 –
  Joe Gallo, American gangster (b. 1929)
• 1992 –
  Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
• 2004 –
  Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (b. 1901)
• 2005 –
  Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2005 –
  Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)