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
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1798 –The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
- 1827 –John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- 1829 –Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
- 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.
- 1927 –First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1933 –Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.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.
Who were born on April 7?
- 1867 –Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- 1936 –Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
- 1938 –Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
- 1946 –Zaid Abdul-Aziz, American basketball player
- 1962 –Andrew “Andy” Hampsten, American cyclist
- 1965 –Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
- 1975 –Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
- 1975 –Tiki Barber, American football player
- 1980 –Dragan Bogavac, Montenegrin footballer
- 1989 –Alexa Demara, American model
Who died on April 7?
- 1498 –King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
- 1885 –Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
- 1955 –Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
- 1968 –Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1936)
- 1985 –Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1888)
- 1990 –Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
- 2003 –Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
- 2005 –Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
- 2009 –Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
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