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
- 1521 –Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 1776 –Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1933 –Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
- 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 –The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1983 –During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1994 –Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 1995 –First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- 2001 –Mars Odyssey is launched.
- 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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