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.
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What Happened On April 7
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1868 –Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
- 1906 –Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 1906 –The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1908 –H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- 1922 –Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- 1940 –Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 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.
- 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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