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
- 1785 –Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1835 –HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1927 –The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1950 –A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- 1954 –Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1959 –The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 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?
- 1837 –Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
- 1858 –Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
- 1924 –Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
- 1935 –Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
- 1941 –Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- 1944 –Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
- 1948 –Kenny Loggins, American singer
- 1961 –Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1982 –Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1990 –Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
Who died on January 7?
- 1400 –Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
- 1625 –Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c.1560)
- 1919 –Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
- 1944 –Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
- 1964 –Cyril Davies, English musician (b. 1932)
- 1972 –John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1984 –Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1986 –Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
- 1998 –Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2007 –Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
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