7 Aprile

The **7t o Aprile** is the 97t day o the year (98t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 268 days ti come.

## Events

*1141 &ndash; Empress Matilda becomes ruler o Ingland.
*1348 &ndash; Charles Varsity in Prague is foondit.
*1521 &ndash; Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu, Philippines.
*1767 &ndash; End o Burmese-Siamese War.
*1896 &ndash; Fridtjof Nansen reaches the furthest North until that pynt.
*1906 &ndash; Munt Vesuvius erupts.
*1939 &ndash; Warld War II: Italy invades Albanie.
*1948 &ndash; The Warld Heal Organization is foondit.
*1955 &ndash; Anthony Eden replaces Winston Churchill as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
*1968 &ndash; Scots racin driver Jim Clark dees in a crash at Hockenheim, Wast Germany.
*1980 &ndash; The Unitit States severs ties wi Iran.
*1994 &ndash; The Rwandan Genocide begins.
*2001 &ndash; The Mars Odyssey spacecraft launches.
*2003 &ndash; Iraq War: Unitit States troops capture Baghdad.
*2009 &ndash; Umwhile Preses o Peru Alberto Fujimori is convictit o orderin killins an kidnappings bi security forces.
*2010 &ndash; Roza Otunbayeva becomes Preses o Kyrgyzstan efter the demission o Kurmanbek Bakiyev amid major protests.
*2017 &ndash; 2017 Stockholm attack: A lorry-rammin attack in central Stockholm kills 5 fowk.

## Births

*1506 - Francis Xavier, Navarrese-Basque missionary (d. 1552)
*1652 - Pape Clement XII (d. 1740)
*1718 - Hugh Blair, Scots meenister an author (d. 1800)
*1767 - Henry Bell, Scots ingineer (d. 1830)
*1770 - William Wordsworth, Inglis poet (d. 1850)
*1859 - Walter Camp, American sports pioneer (d. 1925)
*1882 - Kurt von Schleicher, German politeecian (d. 1934)
*1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (d. 1957)
*1911 - Willie Ross, Baron Ross o Marnock, Secretar o State for Scotland (d. 1988)
*1915 - Billie Holiday, American sangster (d. 1959)
*1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian muisicker (d. 2012)
*1928 - James Garner, American actor (d. 2014)
*1934 - Ian Richardson, Scots actor (d. 2007)
*1938 - Jerry Brown, American politeecian, umwhile Govrenor o Californie
*1939 - David Frost, Inglis broadcaster (d. 2013)
*1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer an screenwriter
*1944 - Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese pheesicist
*1944 - Gerhard Schröder, umwhile Chancellor o Germany
*1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
*1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
*1972 - Tim Peake, Inglis astronaut
*1983 - Franck Ribéry, French fitbawer
*1985 - Humza Yousaf, Scots politeecian
*1985 - Scott Robertson, Scots fitbawer
*1991 - Anne-Marie, Inglis sangster an sangwriter
*1997 - Oliver Burke, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
*1498 - Charles VIII o Fraunce (b. 1470)
*1614 - El Greco, Greek-Spainyie penter (b. 1541)
*1789 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
*1836 - William Godwin, Inglis jurnalist an author (b. 1756)
*1891 - P. T. Barnum, American business magnate, circus presenter and politician (b. 1810)
*1943 - Alexandre Millerand, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1859)
*1947 - Henry Ford, American businessman, foondit the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
*1968 - Jim Clark, Scots racin driver (b. 1936)
*1973 - Ian Campbell, 11t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (b. 1903)
*1977 - Sheina Marshall, Scots marine biologist (b. 1896)
*1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet-Roushie mathemateecian an economist (d. 1912)
*2012 - Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14t Yerl o Leevin, Scots peer an sodger (b. 1924)
*2015 - Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, vyce actor an sangster (b. 1926)
*2018 - Peter Grünberg, German pheesicist (b. 1939)

## Halidays

* Warld Heal Day - foondin day o the Warld Heal Organization
* Genocide Remembrance Day (Rwanda)