April 7: Day of the Week
April 7, 2022 was the 97th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 268 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.
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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Aries is the zodiac 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.
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April 7 Historical Event(s)
- 1724Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
- 1798The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
- 1829Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
- 1906The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1922Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- 1927First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1945World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1983During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1999The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- 2009Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
Who were born on April 7?
- 1539Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
- 1897Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
- 1919Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
- 1933Wayne Rogers, American actor
- 1938Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
- 1941Cornelia Frances, Australian actress
- 1947Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1948Carol Douglas, American singer
- 1956Christopher Darden, prosecutor in O. J. Simpson murder case
- 1975Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer
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