About April 7
April 7, 2024 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 7
- 529 –First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
- 1348 –Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- 1541 –Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1906 –The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 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.
- 1943 –Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the WWII Axis Occupation.
- 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.
- 1978 –Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1983 –During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1990 –A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
- 1994 –Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 2003 –U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
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