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, 482,280 hours 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.
- 1782 –The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1920 –The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 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.
- 1940 –Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1979 –Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1990 –The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 2010 –Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1647 –Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1786 –John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
- 1876 –William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- 1906 –Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
- 1910 –Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1913 –Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1928 –William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
- 1960 –David Marciano, American actor
- 1961 –John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
- 1979 –Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
Who died on January 7?
- 1619 –Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. c.1547)
- 1700 –Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
- 1758 –Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1878 –François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1904 –Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (b. 1836)
- 1946 –Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
- 1964 –Cyril Davies, English musician (b. 1932)
- 1968 –Prof. James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
- 1998 –Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 2002 –Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
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