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| April 7th, 2003 | Event | U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein s regime falls two days later. |
| April 7th, 2001 | Event | Mars Odyssey is launched. |
| April 7th, 1999 | Event | The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. |
| April 7th, 1994 | Event | Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| April 7th, 1992 | Event | Republika Srpska announces its independence. |
| April 7th, 1990 | Event | Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal). |
| April 7th, 1989 | Event | Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors. |
| April 7th, 1985 | Event | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. |
| April 7th, 1983 | Event | During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. |
| April 7th, 1978 | Event | Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. |
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