About February 7
February 7, 2024 is the 38th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 3 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 7
- 1074 –Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
- 1301 –Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
- 1497 –The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- 1795 –The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
- 1807 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
- 1863 –HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
- 1894 –The Cripple Creek miner’s strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
- 1898 –Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
- 1904 –A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1907 –The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 1940 –The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
- 1943 –Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1944 –World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
- 1948 –Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
- 1974 –Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1986 –Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
- 1995 –Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
- 2008 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 2009 –Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.
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