April 7th, 1721

Born on April 7th, 1721

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What happened on April 7th?

April 7th, 2017

A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.

April 7th, 1995

First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

April 7th, 1994

A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.

April 7th, 1979

Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

April 7th, 1972

Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.

April 7th, 1964

American Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.

April 7th, 1949

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.

April 7th, 1948

The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.

April 7th, 1945

World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Kikusui I in the East China Sea.

April 7th, 1926

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini survived an assassination attempt by Irishwoman Violet Gibson.

April 7th, 1896

An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.

April 7th, 1862

American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, at the time the bloodiest battle in U.S. history, in Hardin County, Tennessee.

April 7th, 1655

After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII.

April 7th, 1831

Pedro II became emperor of the Empire of Brazil.

April 7th, 2001

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 7th

Same year
Born in 1721

50

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

*March 19th, 1721, Cardross †September 17th, 1771, Livorno

42

Madame de Pompadour

Chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

*December 29th, 1721, Paris †April 15th, 1764, Versailles

82

Edmund Pendleton

American politician (1721-1803)

*September 9th, 1721, Caroline County †October 23rd, 1803, Caroline County

66

Benjamin Wilson

British painter and scientist (1721-1788)

*June 21st, 1721, Leeds †June 6th, 1788, London

85

John Reid

British Army officer, composer, and flautist (1721–1807)

*February 13th, 1721, Perthshire †February 6th, 1807, London

86

Fredrik Henrik af Chapman

Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (1721-1808)

*September 9th, 1721, Gothenburg †August 19th, 1808, Karlskrona city community

61

Anna Dorothea Therbusch

Painter from Prussia (1721-1782)

*July 23rd, 1721, Berlin †November 9th, 1782, Berlin

46

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)

*August 19th, 1721, Tübingen †May 9th, 1768, Tübingen

87

David Zeisberger

American missionary

*April 11th, 1721, Suchdol nad Odrou †November 17th, 1808, Ohio

59

Johann de Kalb

American general (1721-1780)

*June 19th, 1721, Hüttendorf †August 19th, 1780, Camden

70

Placidus Fixlmillner

Austrian monk-astronomer

*May 28th, 1721, Upper Austria †August 27th, 1791, Kremsmünster

81

Domenico Corvi

Italian painter (1721-1803)

*September 16th, 1721, Viterbo †July 22nd, 1803, Rome

71

Franz Anton Knittel

German theologian

*April 3rd, 1721, Salzdahlum †December 10th, 1792, Wolfenbüttel

72

Roger Sherman

Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721-1793)

*April 19th, 1721, Newton †July 23rd, 1793, New Haven

85

Eliphalet Dyer

American judge and politician

*September 14th, 1721, Windham †May 13th, 1807, Windham

52

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

German general

*February 3rd, 1721, Kalkar †August 27th, 1773, Oława

46

John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767)

*January 8th, 1721, Rudolstadt †July 10th, 1767, Rudolstadt

76

Johann Samuel Diterich

German Archdeacon and parson (1721-1797)

*January 1st, 1721, Berlin †January 1st, 1797, Berlin

77

Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid

German politician (1721-1798)

*December 12th, 1721, Kahren †December 30th, 1798, Dresden

48

Mark Akenside

English poet and physician

*November 9th, 1721, Newcastle upon Tyne †June 23rd, 1770, London

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1721 is a normal year and no leap year.

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