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.
- 1598 –Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 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.
- 1782 –The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1797 –The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 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.
- 1940 –Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1945 –World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 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.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 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.
- 1993 –The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
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