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 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, 1,704,585,600 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 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.

January 7 Historical Events

• 1598 –
  Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
• 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.
• 1904 –
  The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
• 1931 –
  Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
• 1935 –
  Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
• 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.
• 1968 –
  Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• 1984 –
  Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1991 –
  Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

Who were born on January 7?

• 1876 –
  William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
• 1917 –
  Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
• 1946 –
  Jann Wenner, American publisher
• 1967 –
  Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
• 1969 –
  David Yost, American actor
• 1971 –
  Jeremy Renner, American actor
• 1978 –
  Kevin Mench, American baseball player
• 1981 –
  Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
• 1983 –
  Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
• 1987 –
  Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress

Who died on January 7?

• 1655 –
  Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
• 1658 –
  Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
• 1694 –
  Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.1618)
• 1700 –
  Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
• 1758 –
  Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
• 1960 –
  Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
• 1980 –
  Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1998 –
  Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 2004 –
  Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• 2010 –
  Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)