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
- 1348 –Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 1541 –Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- 1767 –End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
- 1945 –World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1948 –The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1954 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his “domino theory” speech during a news conference.
- 1969 –The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 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.
- 1989 –Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
- 1994 –Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
- 1995 –First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
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