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
- 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.
- 1831 –D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
- 1890 –Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 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.
- 1946 –Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1948 –A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
- 1948 –The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1956 –Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
- 1964 –IBM announces the System/360.
- 1969 –The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 1971 –President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- 1976 –Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
- 1977 –German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1983 –During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1985 –Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
- 1992 –Republika Srpska announces its independence.
- 1999 –The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- 2009 –Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
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