What Happened on April 7

A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on April 7 throughout history.

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Historical Events on April 7

30 Scholars estimate for the crucifixion of Jesus by Roman troops in Jerusalem [or April 3]

The siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire (66–73 CE).

529

First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis or the Justinian Code (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Rom

First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis or the Justinian Code (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I

1948

World Health Organization is formed by the United Nations

The establishment of the World Health Organization occurred on 7 April 1948, when its new constitution was ratified by a twenty-sixth nation.

1954

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a news conference, is the first to voice fear of a "domino effect" of communism in

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a news conference, is the first to voice fear of a "domino effect" of communism in the Indochina region

1968

Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

1969

The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

1927

First long-distance television transmission: an image of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover is sent from Washington, D

First long-distance television transmission: an image of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC by AT&T

1724

Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxo

Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion" premieres on Good Friday at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)

2000

South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged by Delhi police with fixing One Day International matches against

South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged by Delhi police with fixing One Day International matches against India

1868

American religious leader Brigham Young weds his 53rd wife, American actress and future polygamy critic Anna Webb (24),

American religious leader Brigham Young weds his 53rd wife, American actress and future polygamy critic Anna Webb (24), in Salt Lake City, Utah

1920

American country singer Jimmie Rodgers (22) weds Carrie Williamson

1921

French army captain, and future president, Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20) in the Notre-Dame de Calais

French army captain, and future president, Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20) in the Notre-Dame de Calais church

1994

American "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Shannen Doherty (22) files for divorce from American actor Ashley Hamilton (19),

American "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Shannen Doherty (22) files for divorce from American actor Ashley Hamilton (19), after just over six months of marriage

611

Forces from Maya city Calakmul invade and conquer the neighbouring city of Palenque, holding it as a vassal state for fi

Forces from Maya city Calakmul invade and conquer the neighbouring city of Palenque, holding it as a vassal state for five years

1348

Prague University, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

1456

Louis de Bourbon becomes Prince-Bishop of Liège

1498

Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy

1509

France declares war on Venice

The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

1521

Slave revolt in New York City: Just after midnight, 9 slaveowners are killed and 6 wounded by a group of about two dozen

Slave revolt in New York City: Just after midnight, 9 slaveowners are killed and 6 wounded by a group of about two dozen slaves attempting to lead a revolt; at least 21 enslaved Africans were executed, and another half dozen committed suicide [1] [2]

1739

Dick Turpin is executed in England for horse stealing

Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.

1776

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward

USS Lexington was a 16-gun brigantine of the Continental Navy. Purchased by the navy in 1776, she was 86-foot (26 m) and served in the American Revolutionary War before being captured by the British...

1788

First settlement in Ohio is established at Marietta

Marietta is a city in Washington County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat.

1798

Mississippi Territory is organized

The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by the Congress of the United States.

1824

First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" in St. Petersburg, Russia

The Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123, is a Solemn Mass composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 to 1823.

1860

Grand Duke Frederick I liberalizes laws in Baden

1863

Battle of Charleston, South Carolina failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter

The Battle of Fort Sumter (also the Attack on Fort Sumter or the Fall of Fort Sumter) (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina...

1865

Battle of Farmville, Virginia

The Battle of Cumberland Church was fought on April 7, 1865, between the Union Army's II Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign...

1868

Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadi

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 only federal politician

1890

Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal, Japan

Lake Biwa Canal (琵琶湖疏水 or 琵琶湖疎水, Biwako Sosui) is a historic waterway in Japan connecting Lake Biwa to the nearby City of Kyoto.

1891

Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day

1896

American athlete Robert Garrett wins the throwing double at the Athens Olympics by taking out the shot putt (11.22m); wi

American athlete Robert Garrett wins the throwing double at the Athens Olympics by taking out the shot putt (11.22m); wins the discus the previous day

1901

SDAP demands general voting right, abolishing First Chamber

1902

Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron".

1906

Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business

1919

First parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks

Cleveland Metroparks is an extensive system of nature preserves in Greater Cleveland, Ohio.

1923

1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney

1926

Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)

1928

44-year old NY Rangers GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game and beats Montreal Maroon

44-year old NY Rangers GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game and beats Montreal Maroons, 2-1 in OT; Rangers go on to win series, 3-2

1931

Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco

Seals Stadium was a Minor League Baseball stadium in San Francisco, California, United States; it later became the first home of the major-league San Francisco Giants.

1933

'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer

1939

Italy invades Albania

The Kingdom of Albania was in personal union with the Kingdom of Italy (Fascist Italy) following the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939 and until the German occupation in September 1943.

1941

British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa

General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in...

1945

Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa isla

Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island

1946

Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part...

1948

A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead

1951

American Bowling Congress begins first Masters Tournament

1953

1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

1954

German government refuses to recognize DDR

1956

France officially relinquished its protectorate in Morocco, Spain follows suit for regions of her protectorate in northe

France officially relinquished its protectorate in Morocco, Spain follows suit for regions of her protectorate in northern Morocco

1957

Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run

1958

Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the l

Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line

1959

Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years

1962

Indian cricketer Polly Umrigar slams 172 not out vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes

1963

Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new inv

Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors

1964

IBM announces the System/360 mainframe computer

The IBM System 360) is a family of computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978.

1965

Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan

1966

US recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor (whoops)

1967

Israeli Syrian border fights

1969

Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds

1972

Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast

From 1969 until 1997, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an armed paramilitary campaign primarily in Northern Ireland and England, aimed at ending British rule in Northern Ireland...

1973

Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420

1974

Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC

1975

Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World coun

Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries

1977

Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant

1978

Guttenberg bible sells for $2,000,000 in New York City

1979

Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1980

US President Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of...

1982

Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister (30 November 1979 – August 1980) during the Iran...

1983

Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1985

1st live telecast of Easter Parade in New York

1987

Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

1988

Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns, Ferdi Elsas, arrested in the Netherlands

1989

NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually

NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules

1990

BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr

1991

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) was a space observatory detecting photons with energies from 20 keV to 30 GeV, in Earth orbit from 1991 to 2000.

1992

Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.

1993

Dante Bichette hits the first Colorado Rockies home run at Shea Stadium in New York

The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.

1994

American soul singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion; receives sentence of six months in a halfway house, five

American soul singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion; receives sentence of six months in a halfway house, five years of probation, and ordered to pay $96,000 in back taxes and penalties

1995

Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike

1996

Pakistan beats Sri Lanka to win Cricket's Singer Cup in Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia.

1997

Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers , Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM

1999

The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Uni

The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas

2000

1st regular season MLB game at Enron Field (now Minute Maid Park) in Houston, Texas; visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat

1st regular season MLB game at Enron Field (now Minute Maid Park) in Houston, Texas; visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 4-1, Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen hits first homer at new park

2001

Mars Odyssey is launched

2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297...

2012

Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier

The Siachen Glacier is a glacier located in the eastern Karakoram range of the Himalayas, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends in northeastern...

2013

15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force

The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale...

2016

Longest-ever captured python found on Penang Island in Malaysia (26ft/8m)

2018

Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500

2019

ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South K

ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Ko Jin-young wins her first major title by 3 strokes over fellow South Korean Lee Mi-hyang

2020

Australia's highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell

2021

UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 million Americans ha

UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose [1]

2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the US Senate to the Supreme Court in 53-47 vote

Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the US Senate to the Supreme Court in 53-47 vote [1]

2023

Fake jury trial reality television series "Jury Duty," created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, stars Ronald Gladde

Fake jury trial reality television series "Jury Duty," created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, stars Ronald Gladden as himself, who is unaware of the hoax, alongside James Marsden and Mekki Leeper as jurors, premieres on Amazon Freevee [1]

2024

British charity fundraiser Russ Cook the "Hardest Geezer" runs the length of Africa, arriving at Ras Angela, Tunisia, al

British charity fundraiser Russ Cook the "Hardest Geezer" runs the length of Africa, arriving at Ras Angela, Tunisia, almost a year after setting off from Cape Agulhas, South Africa [1]

2025

Asia-Pacific stock markets have their biggest falls in a decade after US President Trump announced tariffs between 10% a

Asia-Pacific stock markets have their biggest falls in a decade after US President Trump announced tariffs between 10% and 46% [1]

Famous Births on April 7

1506birth

Francis Xavier is born

Francis Xavier, French navarese catholic saint and missionary, known for navarese catholic saint and missionary, was born on 1506-04-07.

1770birth

William Wordsworth is born

William Wordsworth, English romantic poet, known for english romantic poet, was born on 1770-04-07.

1860birth

Will Keith Kellogg is born

Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, known for american businessman, was born on 1860-04-07.

1929birth

Joe Gallo is born

Joe Gallo, American italian-american mobster, known for italian-american mobster, was born on 1929-04-07.

1945birth

Gerhard Schröder is born

1971birth

MacKenzie Scott is born

MacKenzie Scott, American philanthropist and novelist, known for american philanthropist and novelist, was born on 1971-04-07.

1928birth

James Garner is born

James Garner, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1928-04-07. James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor.

1939birth

David Frost is born

David Frost, English television host and journalist, known for british television host and journalist, was born on 1939-04-07.

1940birth

Francis Ford Coppola is born

Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker, known for american filmmaker, was born on 1940-04-07. Francis Ford Coppola ( KOH-pə-lə; born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker.

1955birth

Jackie Chan is born

Jackie Chan hong kong actor and martial artist, known for hong kong actor and martial artist, was born on 1955-04-07.

1965birth

Russell Crowe is born

Russell Crowe, New Zealand zealand-born actor, known for new zealand-born actor, was born on 1965-04-07. Russell Ira Crowe is an actor and film director.

1915birth

Billie Holiday is born

Billie Holiday, American musician, known for american jazz singer, was born on 1915-04-07. Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer.

1920birth

Ravi Shankar is born

Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, known for indian musician and sitar player, was born on 1920-04-07. Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer.

1992birth

Anne-Marie is born

1918birth

Bobby Doerr is born

Bobby Doerr, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1918-04-07.

1982birth

Suzann Pettersen is born

Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian athlete, known for norwegian professional golfer, was born on 1982-04-07. Suzann Pettersen is a Norwegian former professional golfer.

1889birth

Gabriela Mistral is born

Gabriela Mistral, American chilean author and diplomat, known for chilean author and diplomat, was born on 1889-04-07.

1893birth

Allen Dulles is born