About January 7
January 7, 2024 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.
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Capricorn is the sun 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.
What Happened On January 7
- 1325 –Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 –France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1797 –The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835 –HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904 –The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- 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.
- 1927 –The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1935 –Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1948 –Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1950 –A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- 1954 –Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 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.
- 1979 –Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1985 –Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1990 –The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 1999 –The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 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.
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