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7 April 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 April 2023 was a Friday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2023
- The Irish chart song for 2023 was “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 7 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 April 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 April 2023 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 7 April
- 2018 Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation". Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, before being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
- 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
- 2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
- 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
Famous people born on 7 April
- Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1954)
- Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor (born 1964)
- Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
- James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer (1928–2014)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 9 February – An Coimisiún Toghcháin (the Irish electoral commission) was established under the Electoral Reform Act 2022 to oversee elections in Ireland.
- 23 April – An incorporeal Cabinet meeting agreed to send an Emergency Consular Assistance Team to Sudan, via Djibouti – some of them leaving on the night – on a mission to evacuate 150 Irish people and their families from the armed conflict there.
- 6 May – Michael D. Higgins and Leo Varadkar, respectively, became the first Irish president and taoiseach in history to attend the coronation of a British monarch, at Westminster Abbey in London.
Life in Ireland in 2023
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.75/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.98
Average House
€410,000
Weekly Wage
€665
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