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, 473,496 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.
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
- 1797 –The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835 –HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1920 –The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1952 –President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1954 –Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1984 –Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1989 –Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1991 –Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 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?
- 1873 –Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
- 1895 –Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1900 –John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
- 1910 –Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1922 –Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
- 1941 –Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- 1960 –David Marciano, American actor
- 1976 –Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1980 –Zöe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
- 1983 –Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
Who died on January 7?
- 1451 –Count Amadeus VIII of Svoy (b. 1383)
- 1786 –Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1946 –Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
- 1953 –Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1963 –Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1967 –David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
- 1990 –Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
- 1998 –Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 2008 –Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
- 2011 –Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
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