About February 7
February 7, 2025 is the 38th 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.
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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 375 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.
- 1074 –Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
- 1301 –Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
- 1842 –Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
- 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.
- 1863 –HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 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.
- 1898 –Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
- 1904 –A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1935 –The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
- 1940 –The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
- 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
- 1978 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1979 –Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
- 1986 –Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
- 1991 –Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
- 1992 –The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
- 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.
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