7 April
Notable Births
Rafaela Gómez
b. 1997
Ecuadorian tennis player
Emerson Hyndman
b. 1996
American soccer player (born 1996)
Johanna Allik
b. 1994
Estonian figure skater (born 1994)
Aaron Gray (rugby league)
b. 1994
Australian rugby league footballer
Josh Hader
b. 1994
American baseball pitcher (born 1994)
Ichinojō Takashi
b. 1993
Japanese sumo wrestler
Negueba
b. 1992
Brazilian footballer
Luka Milivojević
b. 1991
Serbian footballer (born 1991)
Anne-Marie
b. 1991
English singer (born 1990)
Nickel Ashmeade
b. 1990
Jamaican sprinter (born 1990)
Sorana Cîrstea
b. 1990
Romanian tennis player (born 1990)
Trent Cotchin
b. 1990
Australian rules footballer
Franco Di Santo
b. 1989
Argentine footballer
Mitchell Pearce
b. 1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Teddy Riner
b. 1989
French heavyweight judoka (born 1989)
Antonio Piccolo
b. 1988
Italian footballer (born 1988)
Ed Speleers
b. 1988
British actor (born 1988)
Martín Cáceres
b. 1987
Uruguayan footballer (born 1987)
Eelco Sintnicolaas
b. 1987
Dutch athlete
Jamar Smith
b. 1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
William Finn
d. 2025
American composer and lyricist (1952–2025)
Jerry Grote
d. 2024
American baseball player (1942–2024)
Joe Kinnear
d. 2024
Irish football manager and player (1946–2024)
Ben Ferencz
d. 2023
American lawyer (1920–2023)
Philippe Bouvatier
d. 2023
French cyclist (1964–2023)
Tommy Raudonikis
d. 2021
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1950–2021)
John Prine
d. 2020
American singer-songwriter (1946–2020)
Herb Stempel
d. 2020
American game show contestant (1926–2020)
Seymour Cassel
d. 2019
American actor (1935–2019)
Blackjack Mulligan
d. 2016
American professional wrestler and American football player (1942–2016)
José Capellán
d. 2015
Dominican baseball player (1981–2015)
Stan Freberg
d. 2015
American actor and entertainer (1926–2015)
Richard Henyekane
d. 2015
South African soccer player (1983-2015)
Geoffrey Lewis (actor)
d. 2015
American actor (1935–2015)
George Dureau
d. 2014
American artist (1930–2014)
Sandy Green (mathematician)
d. 2014
British mathematician (1926–2014)
V. K. Murthy
d. 2014
Indian cinematographer
Josep Maria Subirachs
d. 2014
Spanish sculptor and painter
Les Blank
d. 2013
American documentary filmmaker
Steven Kanumba
d. 2012
Tanzanian Actor from Shinyanga Region
On This Day in History
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2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
2021
COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2020
COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
COVID-19 pandemic
2020
COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
Thomas Modly
2018
Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
Brazilians
2018
Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.
Douma chemical attack
2017
A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
2017 Stockholm truck attack
2017
U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
Donald Trump
2011
The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
Israel Defense Forces
2011
A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.
Rio de Janeiro school shooting
2009
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
Peru
2009
Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
2005
First release of Git distributed version control system.
Git
2003
Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
Iraq War
2003
Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haitian independence debt.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
2001
NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
NASA
1999
Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.
Turkish Airlines Flight 5904
1995
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
First Chechen War
1994
Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
Rwandan genocide
1994
Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
Federal Express Flight 705