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, 1,736,208,000 seconds 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.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904 –The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- 1920 –The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1945 –World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1952 –President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1985 –Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1999 –The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1832 –James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1876 –William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- 1912 –Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1928 –William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
- 1935 –Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
- 1936 –Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
- 1947 –Shobha De, Indian writer
- 1960 –Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U.S. Representative from California
- 1971 –Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1988 –Haley Bennett, American singer and actress
Who died on January 7?
- 1758 –Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1770 –Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1830 –Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
- 1864 –Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
- 1963 –Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1972 –John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1981 –Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
- 1992 –Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
- 1996 –Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 2008 –Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
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