About January 7
January 7, 2023 is the 7th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 15 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 7
- 1598 –Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1608 –Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1785 –Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1919 –Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1927 –The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 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.
- 1993 –Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 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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