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

  • 1598 –
    Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
  • 1608 –
    Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
  • 1782 –
    The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
  • 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.
  • 1931 –
    Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
  • 1935 –
    Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
  • 1959 –
    The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
  • 1968 –
    Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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