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
- 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.
- 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)
- 1776 –Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 1805 –Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- 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.
- 1890 –Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 1906 –The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1927 –First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1939 –World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 1943 –Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the WWII Axis Occupation.
- 1948 –A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
- 1964 –IBM announces the System/360.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- 1995 –First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 2001 –Mars Odyssey is launched.
- 2003 –U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
- 2009 –Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
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