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
- 1497 –The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
- 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.
- 1807 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
- 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.
- 1863 –HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 1894 –The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- 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.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
- 1904 –A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1907 –The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 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
- 1979 –Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
- 1991 –Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
- 1995 –Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 1997 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 2009 –Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.
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