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.
- 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.
- 1904 –The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- 1922 –Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1935 –Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1948 –Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1959 –The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 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.
- 1979 –Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 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).
- 1990 –The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 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 –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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