So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

April 7th


- Christian Feast Day
- World Health Day (International)

April 7th


- 2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
- 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
- 2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
- 1999 - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
- 1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 1994 - Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
- 1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
- 1990 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
- 1989 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
- 1985 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
- 1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
- 1978 - Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1977 - German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
- 1976 - Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
- 1971 - President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
- 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
- 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
- 1963 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
- 1956 - Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
- 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
- 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- 1948 - A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
- 1946 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
- 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.
- 1945 - World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
- 1943 - Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
- 1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
- 1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania.
- 1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
- 1927 - First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
- 1922 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
- 1908 - H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- 1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
- 1890 - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
- 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- 1829 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
- 1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- 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.
- 1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
- 1788 - American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
- 1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
- 1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
- 1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
- 529 - First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

April 7th


- 1990 - Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer
- 1989 - Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer
- 1989 - Alexa Demara, American model
- 1988 - Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer
- 1988 - Edward Speleers, British model and actor
- 1986 - Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
- 1983 - Franck Ribéry, French football player
- 1983 - Jon Stead, British football player
- 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
- 1981 - Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
- 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
- 1979 - Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1979 - Patrick Crayton, American football player
- 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
- 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
- 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player
- 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player
- 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
- 1975 - Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer
- 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
- 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
- 1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
- 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
- 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
- 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
- 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
- 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player
- 1968 - Jennifer Lynch, American director
- 1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
- 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
- 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
- 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
- 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
- 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1964 - Jace Alexander, American television director
- 1964 - Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, Duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
- 1963 - Paul Michael Robinson, American actor and erotic actor
- 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
- 1962 - Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist
- 1962 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1961 - Thurl Bailey, American basketball player
- 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
- 1960 - James "Buster" Douglas, American boxer
- 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
- 1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
- 1956 - Christopher Darden, prosecutor of O.J. Simpson
- 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
- 1955 - Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and television news journalist
- 1954 - Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, director, producer, and martial artist
- 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
- 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
- 1949 - Mitch Daniels, American politician, governor of Indiana
- 1949 - John Oates, American rock guitarist and lyricst (Hall & Oates)
- 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
- 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
- 1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
- 1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
- 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
- 1946 - Stan Winston, American special effects, makeup artist and film director (d. 2008)
- 1945 - Martyn Lewis, British newsreader
- 1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
- 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
- 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
- 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
- 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, German politician
- 1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 - Jeetendra, Indian actor
- 1942 - Nam Gi-nam, South Korean director of movies
- 1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
- 1941 - James Di Pasquale, American composer
- 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
- 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host
- 1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician
- 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
- 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
- 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
- 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
- 1935 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
- 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
- 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor
- 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author (d. 1989)
- 1930 - Andrew Sachs, English actor
- 1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
- 1928 - James Garner, American actor
- 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (d. 1998)
- 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999)
- 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
- 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
- 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
- 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
- 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
- 1919 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
- 1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
- 1917 - R.G. Armstrong, American actor
- 1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
- 1914 - Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
- 1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
- 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
- 1903 - Edwin T. Layton, American Naval officer (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
- 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
- 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)
- 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
- 1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
- 1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
- 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
- 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
- 1859 - Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (d. 1925)
- 1853 - Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (d. 1884)
- 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
- 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
- 1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
- 1780 - William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
- 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
- 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
- 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
- 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
- 1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
- 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
- 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
- 1613 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
- 1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
- 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish co-founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552)