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
- 1325 –Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1598 –Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1782 –The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1942 –World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 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.
- 1959 –The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 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.
- 1980 –President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 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 –The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 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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