About April 7
April 7, 2025 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.
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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 316 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 7
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1776 –Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1805 –Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- 1829 –Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
- 1831 –D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1890 –Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 1906 –Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 1908 –H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- 1927 –First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1940 –Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 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.
- 1964 –IBM announces the System/360.
- 1969 –The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 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.
- 1990 –A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
- 2001 –Mars Odyssey is launched.
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