April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
NATIONAL BEER DAY
BORN TODAY
1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint, co-founded the Society of Jesus, Jesuits (d. 1552)
1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)
1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (d. 1972)
1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959)
NATIONAL BEER DAY
1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the British sloop Edward.
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.
1805 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1922 – The Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon leases Teapot Dome Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming, and two others in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.
1927 – The first long-distance public television broadcast takes place, from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
1927 – The first long-distance public television broadcast takes place, from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
1933 – Prohibition is repealed in the United States for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1 (Request for Comments 1).
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1995 – The First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
2001 – The U.S. space probe Mars Odyssey is launched. Used to attempt to detect weater on Mars. It currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of the European Space Agency's Mars Express, at 15 years (as of April 7, 2016).
2001 – The U.S. space probe Mars Odyssey is launched. Used to attempt to detect weater on Mars. It currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of the European Space Agency's Mars Express, at 15 years (as of April 7, 2016).
BORN TODAY
1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint, co-founded the Society of Jesus, Jesuits (d. 1552)
1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)
1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (d. 1972)
1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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