About January 7

January 7, 2025 is the 7th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 22 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 7

  • 1558 –
    France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
  • 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.
  • 1785 –
    Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
  • 1835 –
    HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
  • 1920 –
    The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
  • 1940 –
    Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
  • 1948 –
    Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
  • 1952 –
    President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
  • 1954 –
    Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
  • 1959 –
    The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
  • 1960 –
    The Polaris missile is test launched.
  • 1968 –
    Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
  • 1990 –
    The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
  • 1991 –
    Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
  • 1993 –
    Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
  • 1993 –
    The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
  • 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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