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, 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.
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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
- 1325 –Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 –France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 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.
- 1919 –Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920 –The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1950 –A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- 1952 –President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 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.
- 1993 –Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1800 –Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1858 –Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
- 1899 –Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1942 –Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1950 –Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
- 1952 –Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1956 –Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 –Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
- 1984 –Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1990 –Camryn Grimes, American actress
Who died on January 7?
- 1694 –Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.1618)
- 1770 –Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1876 –Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- 1919 –Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
- 1966 –Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
- 1967 –David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
- 2004 –Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 –Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
- 2009 –Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
- 2010 –Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
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