What are the important events that happened on February 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 7 is the 38^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 25, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,981,440 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 ‘triacontaoctagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 375 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 4,431 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 7 Historical Events

• 457 –
  Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1783 –
  American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
• 1856 –
  The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
• 1935 –
  The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
• 1940 –
  The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
• 1948 –
  Sancheong-Hamyang massacre:Korean War
• 1986 –
  Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 1990 –
  Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
• 2008 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
• 2009 –
  Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.

Who were born on February 7?

• 1804 –
  John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
• 1885 –
  Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
• 1908 –
  Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
• 1915 –
  Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1947 –
  Wayne Allwine, American voice artist (d. 2009)
• 1974 –
  Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
• 1977 –
  Dimitris Papanikolaou, Greek basketball player
• 1978 –
  David Aebischer, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1983 –
  Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer
• 1989 –
  Louisa Lytton, British actress

Who died on February 7?

• 1603 –
  Hermann Wilken, German humanist and mathematician (b. 1522)
• 1693 –
  Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
• 1873 –
  Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
• 1898 –
  John Reily Knox, Lawyer and founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (b. 1820)
• 1939 –
  Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
• 1959 –
  Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
• 1960 –
  Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
• 1979 –
  Dr. Josef Mengele, German, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
• 2006 –
  Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
• 2008 –
  Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)