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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1927 –The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1935 –Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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