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On This Day · The 97th day of the year

April 7

25 years on from NASA, April 7 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Aries is the sign for April 7 — read more on the Aries page, or see April's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on April 7?

April 7 is the 97th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1805 and 2017. Famous people born on April 7 include Franck Ribéry, Gerhard Schröder and Suzann Pettersen.

Released on April 7

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game People of Note
  • Movie Sniper: No Nation
  • TV I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class

2025

  • TV Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami
  • TV My Hero Academia: Vigilantes

2024

  • TV Mission: Yozakura Family
  • TV The Perfect Prince Loves Me, the Side Character?!

2022

  • Game Chinatown Detective Agency

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1805

    Ludwig van Beethoven

  2. 1831

    Pedro II of Brazil

  3. 1862

    American Civil War

  4. 1939

    Benito Mussolini

  5. 1945

    World War II

  6. 1969

    Internet

  7. 1972

    Viet Cong

  8. 1995

    First Chechen War

  9. 2001

    NASA

  10. 2017

    2017 Stockholm truck attack

Famous birthday twins

Born on April 7

Franck Ribéry

b. 1983

Gerhard Schröder

b. 1944

Suzann Pettersen

b. 1981

Jackie Chan

b. 1954

William Wordsworth

b. 1770

Alan J. Pakula

b. 1928

Francis Ford Coppola

b. 1939

Kurt von Schleicher

b. 1882

Deaths

  • 2009Dave Arneson
  • 1968Jim Clark
  • 1947Henry Ford
  • 1747Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
  • 1614El Greco

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin
  • —Christian feast days: Blessed Alexander Rawlins
  • —Christian feast days: Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
  • —Christian feast days: Brynach
  • —Christian feast days: Hegesippus
  • —Christian feast days: Henry Walpole
  • —Christian feast days: Hermann Joseph
  • —Christian feast days: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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