| General Information for April 7th 2016 |
| There are 4 public holidays today. |
| Day 98 of 2016 |
| 268 days left in 2016 |
| Week 14 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1983 - Astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. |
| 1968 - Racing driver Jim Clarke is killed in a crash at Hockenheim. |
| 1961 - An injured Soviet air force pilot is hospitalised, kick-starting unsubstantiated rumours regarding the first manned space flight. |
| 1858 - In Lourdes, a young girl called Bernadette experiences what is later called 'The Miracle of the Candle'. |