April 7 is the 97nd (98rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 268.
Railways
- April 7, 1917 A battalion of 13 Egyptian artillery, along with the Bedouins commanded by Lavvrence, damaged 20 rails and several telegraph poles between Müderric-Gifye. The attacks have not been cut back.
- With the law numbered 7 on April 1934, 2401; Adana-Toprakkale-İskenderun, Toprakkale-Fevzipaşa-Meydanıekbez (Border I), Çobanbeyli (Border II) -Nusaybin (border III) and Derbesiye-Mardin lines according to the protocol of October 20, 1932 and with the law numbered 8 dated June 1933, 2285. The operation of Banbeyli-Nusaybin and Derbesiye-Mardin lines was given to Cenup Demiryolları Türk AŞ. When the concession period expired on January 1, 1948, he became the State Railways administration.
- 7 April 2017 The foundation of Kars Logistics Center is laid
Events
- 451 – The Hun Emperor Attila captured the city of Metz in northern France, which was in the hands of the Franks. uniting with their Germanic allies; The cities of Reims, Mainz, Strasbourg, Cologne, Worms and Trier were sacked.
- 1140 - Empress Matilda becomes England's first female monarch and is given the title "English Lady".
- 1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Cebu.
- 1712 - Slaves revolt in New York.
- 1789 - Sultan Abdulhamid I passed away, III. Selim ascended the throne.
- 1795 - In France, the meter is adopted as a unit of length.
- 1827 - The match, invented by the English chemist John Walker, is launched in England.
- 1906 - Mount Vesuvius spews lava and the city of Naples is in ruins.
- 1939 – II. World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 1943 – In Terebovlia, western Ukraine, the Nazis killed 1100 Jews and buried them in a mass grave.
- 1945 - Kantaro Suzuki becomes the 42nd Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan.
- 1948 – The World Health Organization (WHO) was established under the United Nations.
- 1963 – Socialist republic declared in Yugoslavia. The name of the country, which had been the "Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia" since 1946, was changed to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1964 – The Pemba People's Republic united with Zanzibar, ending its independence. Zanzibar and Pemba Island united with the Republic of Tanganyika on April 26, 1964, forming the state of Tanzania.
- 1969 - Symbolic birthday of the Internet.
- 1971 - US President Nixon announces that he will increase the rate of withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam.
- 1978 – The foundation of the thermal power plant was laid in the Yatağan district of Muğla.
- 1978 – Istanbul University Faculty of Law Lecturer Assoc. Dr. Server Tanilli was paralyzed as a result of the armed attack.
- 1978 - US President Jimmy Carter decides to halt development of the Neutron bomb.
- 1987 – The case of the Nationalist Movement Party, which lasted for six years, is over. Chairman Alparslan Türkeş was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison.
- 1994 – Germany placed an arms embargo on Turkey for allegedly being used against the civilian population.
- 1995 – Ankara State Theater Mahir Canova Stage was opened.
- 1999 – THY's "Thrace" plane, which took off from Adana to go to Jeddah to pick up the pilgrims, crashed shortly after takeoff. The six-man crew of the plane, which had no passengers, died.
- 2003 – Baghdad was completely under the control of US military units.
- 2007 – Yıldız Geçidi SG-1 series started to be broadcast in Turkish by TRT 1 in Turkey.
- 2011 – Another 11 magnitude earthquake occurred in Japan, which experienced the largest earthquake in its history, called the “2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami” that occurred in the Tōhoku region on March 7.1. It was stated that the epicenter of the earthquake was under the sea, 40 kilometers off the Miyagi region.
- 2017 – As a result of the 2017 Stockholm attack, five people were killed and fifteen injured.
- 2019 – Atatürk Airport was closed to passenger flights. Istanbul Airport started its flights at full capacity.
Births
- 1506 – Franciscus Xaverius, initiator of Christian missionary work in Asia and co-founder of the Jesuits (d. 1552)
- 1652 – XII. Clemens, Pope (d. 1740)
- 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist and naturalist (d. 1806)
- 1770 William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- 1772 – Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist and philosopher (d. 1837)
- 1786 – William R. King, American politician and diplomat (d. 1853)
- 1798 – Pierre Leroux, French philosopher and political economist (d. 1871)
- 1803 – Flora Tristan, French writer, socialist, and women's rights activist (d. 1844)
- 1811 – Hoca Tahsin Efendi, Ottoman scientist and thinker (d. 1881)
- 1836 Thomas Hill Green, English philosopher (d. 1882)
- 1847 – Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish poet, author, scientist (d. 1885)
- 1856 – Mohammed Abdullah Hasan, Somali religious and political leader (d. 1920)
- 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist and cereal producer (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German pacifist (d. 1919)
- 1871 – Kajimukan Munaytpasov, Kazakh wrestler (d. 1948)
- 1884 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist, scientist (d. 1942)
- 1896 – Donald Winnicott, English psychoanalyst (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- 1878 – Ivar Tengbom, Swedish architect (d. 1968)
- 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German soldier and last Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1934)
- 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat (d. 1957)
- 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, founder of Lego company (d. 1958)
- 1896 – Great Lifij, Turkish painter (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, sitar master and composer (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish physicist (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Annemarie Schimmel, German Islamic scholar (d. 2003)
- 1928 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (d. 1998)
- 1928 – James Garner, American film actor (d. 2014)
- 1931 – Donald Barthelme, American short story and novelist (d. 1989)
- 1932 – Abdürrahim Karakoç, Turkish poet and journalist (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Sayyid Hussein Nasr, Iranian writer, academic, and Islamic thinker
- 1934 – Behcet Nacar, Turkish film actor (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American film director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- 1941 – Yurdaer Doğulu, Turkish musician (d. 1987)
- 1944 – Gerhard Schroeder, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany
- 1945 – Farid Ali, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2016)
- 1946 Colette Besson, French athlete (d. 2005)
- 1953 – Fatih Erkoç, Turkish musician
- 1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actress
- 1959 – Ali Sürmeli, Turkish theater and film actor
- 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor
- 1967 – Bodo Illgner, German football player
- 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
- 1976 – Cem Cücenoğlu, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
- 1978 Duncan James, English singer
- 1980 – Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, economist, and politician (d. 2021)
- 1982 – Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (d. 2008)
- 1983 – Marcos Alberto Angeleri, Argentine football player
- 1983 – Franck Ribery, French football player
- 1986 – Brooke Brodack, from the USA youtubeci
- 1986 – Christian Fuchs, Austrian football player
- 1986 – Jan Rosenthal, German football player
- 1987 – José Martín Cáceres Silva, Uruguayan footballer
- 1989 – Davide Santon, Argentine football player
- 1989 – Sylwia Grzeszczak, Polish musician
- 1990 – Nickel Ashmeade, Jamaican-born athlete
- 1991 – Luka Milivojević, Serbian football player
- 1992 – William Silva de Carvalho, Portuguese football player
- 1992 – Alexis Jordan, American actress
Deaths
- 30 – Jesus, the day it is believed that he was killed by crucifixion
- 669 – Hasan bin Ali, 5th Caliph of Islam (b. 624)
- 924 – Berengar I, king of Italy in 887 (b. 845)
- 1498 – VIII. Charles, king of France, reigned from 1483 to 1498 (b. 1470)
- 1503 – Zoi Palaiologina, Byzantine princess of the Palaiologan family (b. 1455)
- 1600 – Bâki, Ottoman poet (Divan literature poet) (b. 1526)
- 1614 – El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter (b. 1541)
- 1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Earl of Ortala and Baron of Virestad. was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer (b. 1603)
- 1761 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1701)
- 1789 – Abdulhamid I, 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1725)
- 1803 – François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary leader and administrator who took part in the Haitian Revolution (b. 1743)
- 1811 – Dositej Obradović, Serbian writer, philosopher, linguist, traveller, polygoth, and Serbia's first minister of education (b. 1742)
- 1816 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German naturalist, theologian, and teacher (b. 1750)
- 1823 – Jacques Charles, French inventor and scientist (b. 1746)
- 1836 – William Godwin, English journalist, political philosopher, and author (b. 1756)
- 1861 – Elisha Otis, American elevator manufacturer (b. 1811)
- 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian author (b. 1825)
- 1891 – PT Barnum, American circus manager and entertainer (b. 1810)
- 1928 – Aleksandr Bogdanov, Russian scientist, philosopher, and science fiction writer (b. 1873)
- 1941 – Blavatniy Nikifor Ivanovich, Ukrainian soldier and community activist, dramaturg, journalist (b. 1886)
- 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
- 1947 – Henry Ford, American automaker and industrialist (b. 1863)
- 1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (John Huston's father) (b. 1884)
- 1954 – Saburō Kurusu, Japanese diplomat (b. 1886)
- 1955 – Theda Bara (Theodosia Goobman), American theater and film actress (b. 1885)
- 1980 – Mehmet İbrahim Karaca, Turkish theater actor (Cem Karaca's father) (b. 1900)
- 1981 – Norman Taurog, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
- 1981 – Seyfettin Özege, Turkish bibliographer (b. 1901)
- 1984 – Othmar Pferschy, Austrian photographer (b. 1898)
- 1986 – Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Soviet mathematician and economist (shared 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics with Tjalling Koopmans) (b. 1912)
- 1991 – Memduh Ünlütürk, Turkish soldier (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Sirus Kayıkran, Iranian football player and manager (b. 1962)
- 1999 – Muharrem Gürses, Turkish screenwriter, actor and film director (b. 1913)
- 2000 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian national goalkeeper (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Paul David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
- 2005 – Melih Kibar, Turkish musician (b. 1951)
- 2008 – Perihan Altındağ Sözeri, Turkish classical music interpreter (b. 1925)
- 2014 – Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof, English columnist and model (b. 1989)
- 2015 – Geoffrey Bond Lewis, American western actor (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Robert Deroy Windham, former American professional wrestler known as Blackjack Mulligan (b. 1942)
- 2017 – Relja Bašić, Croatian actress (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Christopher Morahan, British film and television director (b. 1929)
- 2017 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor (b. 1946)
- 2017 – Frans Widerberg, Norwegian painter and graphic artist (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Brigitte Ahrenholz, Former German rower (b. 1952)
- 2018 – Pyotr Brayko, Soviet soldier (b. 1919)
- 2018 – Peter Grünberg, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1939)
- 2018 – Bozidar Smiljanić, Croatian actor (b. 1936)
- 2019 – Michael E. Busch, American Democratic politician (b. 1947)
- 2019 – Seymour Joseph Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1949)
- 2019 – Sandy Ratcliff, English actress (b. 1948)
- 2019 – Hugo Ballesteros Reyes, Chilean politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
- 2020 – Christian Bonnet, French politician, former interior minister (b. 1921)
- 2020 – Roger Chappot, Swiss professional ice hockey player (b. 1940)
- 2020 – Robert Chaudenson, French linguist (b. 1937)
- 2020 – Jean-Laurent Cochet, French actor and director (b. 1935)
- 2020 – Eddy Davis, American jazz musician (b. 1940)
- 2020 – Allen Garfield (birth name: Allen Goorwitz), American actor (b. 1939)
- 2020 – Henry Franklin Graff, American historian (b. 1921)
- 2020 – Yehuda Leib (“Leibel”) Groner, (Lubavitcher Rebbe) rabbi and writer, principal secretary (b. 1931)
- 2020 – Hudeydi, Somali musician who plays the oud and composes (b. 1928)
- 2020 – Feriburz Ismaili, Iranian national football player (b. 1940)
- 2020 – Sasi Kalinga, Indian actor (b. 1960)
- 2020 – Misik Kazaryan, Armenian-born Russian physicist (b. 1948)
- 2020 – Jan Křen, Czech historian, academic, and opposition political activist (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Roger Matthews, British criminologist (b. 1948)
- 2020 – Yaakov Perlow, American Hasidic rabbi (b. 1930)
- 2020 – John Prine, American country folk singer, guitarist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1946)
- 2020 – Nipper Read, British police officer and boxing executive (b. 1925)
- 2020 – Donato Sabia, Italian middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 meters (b. 1963)
- 2020 – Thomas Scully, Gallic football manager, priest and teacher (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Barbara Smoker, English human rights activist, philosopher, and author (b. 1923)
- 2020 – Miguel Ángel Tábet, Venezuelan theologian (b. 1941)
- 2020 – Hal Willner, American television and music album producer (b. 1956)
- 2021 – Ferid Alekberli, Azerbaijani historian, professor (b. 1964)
- 2021 – Karel Pacner, Czech journalist, economist and author (b. 1936)
Holidays and special occasions
- world Health Day
- Chemists' Day and Chemists' Week
- Withdrawal of Russian Empire and Western Armenia Administration army units from Şenkaya district of Erzurum (1918)
- World Pillow Fight Day
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