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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 359 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 25, 2023 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,409,760 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.
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 34 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 4,034 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 7 Historical Events
- 1919 –Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1940 –Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1954 –Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 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.
- 1984 –Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1990 –The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 1999 –The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1528 –Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
- 1916 –Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1942 –Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
- 1959 –Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
- 1963 –Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
- 1976 –Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1979 –Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1982 –Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1983 –Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1990 –Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
Who died on January 7?
- 1325 –King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
- 1758 –Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1783 –William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
- 1878 –François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1913 –Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1920 –Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1963 –Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1996 –Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 1998 –Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2009 –Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
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