On this day2 stories, from 1906 to 1939
April 7th.
2 stories on this exact date, across the years, plus 41 more from the surrounding weeks.
The surrounding week
11 stories within seven days of 7 April
2 April 1982Wikipedia · "Falkland Islands"Falkland Islands WarUnited Kingdom
4 April 1968Wikipedia · "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.United States
4 April 1291Wikipedia · "Siege of Acre (1291)"Fall of AcrePalestine
5 April 1879Wikipedia · "War of the Pacific"War of the PacificChile
6 April 1992Wikipedia · "Bosnian War"Bosnian War BeginsBosnia and Herzegovina
6 April 1896Wikipedia · "1896 Summer Olympics"1896 Summer Olympic GamesGreece
11 April 1893Wikipedia · "Belgian general strike of 1893"Belgian General Strike for SuffrageBelgium
12 April 1861"Pocket diary owned by Isaiah Goddard Hacker, a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, 1864 (rbm-hacker-diary-1864~171)" by Fæ is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.American Civil WarUnited States
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Elsewhere in April
28 stories
15 April 1989Wikipedia · "Tiananmen Square"Tiananmen Square Pro-Democracy ProtestChina
15 April 1989Steve Daniels · via WikipediaHillsborough Football DisasterUnited Kingdom
15 April 1865Wikipedia · "Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"Lincoln AssassinatedUnited States
16 April 1947Wikipedia · "Texas City disaster"Texas City Industrial DisasterUnited States
17 April 1895Wikipedia · "Treaty of Shimonoseki"Treaty of Shimonoseki: Japan AscendantJapan
18 April 1906Wikipedia · "1906 San Francisco earthquake"San Francisco Earthquake and FireUnited States
19 April 1943Wikipedia · "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"Warsaw Ghetto UprisingPoland
19 April 1775Wikipedia · "Battles of Lexington and Concord"Battles of Lexington and ConcordUnited States
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19 April 1775Wikipedia · "American Revolutionary War"American Revolutionary War BeginsUnited States
20 April 2010Wikipedia · "Deepwater Horizon explosion"Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig ExplosionUnited States
20 April 1961"Miami-Dade Schools students who made this wonderful documentary film about the Bay of Pigs Invasion" by marcsarnoff is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.Bay of Pigs InvasionCuba
20 April 1920Wikipedia · "1920 Summer Olympics"1920 Summer Olympics: AntwerpBelgium
20 April 1746Wikipedia · "Jacobite rising of 1745"Jacobite Rising of 1745United Kingdom
23 April 1924Wikipedia · "British Empire Exhibition"British Empire Exhibition OpensUnited Kingdom
24 April 1846Wikipedia · "Mexican–American War"Mexican-American War BeginsUnited States / Mexico
25 April 2023Wikipedia · "Joe Biden"Joe Biden
25 April 1974Wikipedia · "Carnation Revolution"Carnation Revolution PortugalPortugal- 25 April 19451945 San Francisco ConferenceUnited States
25 April 1915Wikipedia · "Gallipoli campaign"Gallipoli Campaign ConcludesTurkey
25 April 1898Wikipedia · "Spanish–American War"Spanish-American War BeginsSpain
27 April 1992Wikipedia · "Breakup of Yugoslavia"Dissolution of Yugoslavia BeginsYugoslavia
27 April 1937Wikipedia · "Bombing of Guernica"Guernica BombingSpain
27 April 1859Wikipedia · "Second Italian War of Independence"Second Italian War of IndependenceItaly
28 April 1925Wikipedia · "International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts"Exposition Internationale des Arts DécoratifsFrance
29 April 1992Wikipedia · "1992 Los Angeles riots"1992 Los Angeles RiotsUnited States
30 April 1975"Independence Palace or Reunification Palace" by Clay Gilliland is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/.Fall of Saigon & Vietnam War EndsVietnam
30 April 1803Wikipedia · "Louisiana Purchase"Louisiana PurchaseUnited States
30 April 1707Wikipedia · "Acts of Union 1707"Act of Union with ScotlandEngland
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