About February 7
February 7, 2024 is the 38th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun 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 3 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 7
- 457 –Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1301 –Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- 1795 –The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1812 –The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1819 –Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
- 1842 –Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
- 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.
- 1856 –The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
- 1897 –Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
- 1904 –A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1935 –The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
- 1943 –Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1948 –Sancheong-Hamyang massacre:Korean War
- 1962 –The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
- 1974 –Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 –Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
- 1995 –Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 1999 –Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
- 2008 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
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