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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 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.
- 1968 –Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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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