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 7^th 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.

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.

January 7 Historical Events

• 1608 –
  Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 –
  Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
• 1785 –
  Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
• 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.
• 1948 –
  Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
• 1979 –
  Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 –
  President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• 1993 –
  Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
• 1993 –
  The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
• 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?

• 1800 –
  Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
• 1845 –
  King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
• 1895 –
  Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of Qantas (d. 1974)
• 1899 –
  Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
• 1900 –
  John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
• 1932 –
  Joe Berinson, Australian politician
• 1946 –
  Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
• 1973 –
  Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
• 1979 –
  Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
• 1984 –
  Jon Lester, American baseball player

Who died on January 7?

• 1325 –
  King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
• 1400 –
  Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
• 1536 –
  Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
• 1946 –
  Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
• 1951 –
  René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
• 1972 –
  John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
• 1981 –
  Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
• 1988 –
  Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
• 2005 –
  Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
• 2011 –
  Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)