What are the important events that happened on January 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 7 is the 7th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 25, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,936,800 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,400 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 7 Historical Events
- 1325 –Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 –France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1598 –Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1904 –The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- 1931 –Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
- 1952 –President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1973 –Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1989 –Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1993 –Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1999 –The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1837 –Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
- 1845 –King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1876 –William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- 1906 –Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
- 1912 –Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
- 1925 –Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
- 1945 –Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1952 –Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1961 –John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
- 1981 –Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
Who died on January 7?
- 1783 –William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
- 1920 –Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1953 –Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1972 –John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1980 –Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
- 1988 –Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 –Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
- 1990 –Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
- 1995 –Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
- 2007 –Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
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