What happened on January 7? There are more than 302 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 7
January 7 is the 7th day of the year 2024. There are 359 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 1st week of the year 2024.
On this day in Clio, West Virginia 25046 sunrise occured at 07:42 AM and sunset occured at 05:20 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 34 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 7
- 1325Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1598Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1608Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610Galileo 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.
- 1782The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1797The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1894William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
- 1919Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1927The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1931Guy 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.
- 1935Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1940Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1942World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1945World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1948Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1950A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- 1952President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1954Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1959The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1973Mark 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.
- 1979Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1984Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985Japan 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.
- 1989Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1990The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 1991Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1993Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1993The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 1999The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2010Muslim 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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Who Were Born On January 7?
- 1355Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
- 1502Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1528Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
- 1647Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1685Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
- 1706Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1718Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- 1746George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
- 1768Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
- 1786John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
- 1796Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
- 1800Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1827Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
- 1832James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1834Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
- 1837Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
- 1844Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
- 1845King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1858Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
- 1860Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- 1870Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
- 1871Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- 1873Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
- 1873Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
- 1875Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1875Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
- 1876William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- 1888Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982)
- 1891Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
- 1895Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1895Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of Qantas (d. 1974)
- 1896Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
- 1899Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
- 1899Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1900John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
- 1903Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1906Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
- 1907Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
- 1908Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
- 1910Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1911Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1912Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1912Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
- 1913Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1916Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1917Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
- 1921Chester Kallman, American writer (d. 1975)
- 1922Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
- 1922Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
- 1922Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
- 1923Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1924Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
- 1924Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
- 1925Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
- 1926Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
- 1928William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
- 1929Terry Moore, American actress
- 1932Joe Berinson, Australian politician
- 1933Elliott Kastner, American film producer (d. 2010)
- 1934Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
- 1934Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
- 1934Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
- 1935Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
- 1935Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
- 1935Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
- 1935Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1936Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
- 1936G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
- 1938Lou Graham, American golfer
- 1938Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
- 1939Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1941Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
- 1941Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- 1942Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1942Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
- 1942Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
- 1943Richard Armstrong, British conductor
- 1943Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
- 1944Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
- 1944Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
- 1945Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1945Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1945Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1946Jann Wenner, American publisher
- 1946Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
- 1947Shobha De, Indian writer
- 1948Kenny Loggins, American singer
- 1949Anne Schedeen, American actress
- 1949Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter
- 1949Steven Williams, American actor
- 1950Erin Gray, American actress
- 1950Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1950Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
- 1950Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1951Helen Worth, British actress
- 1952Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1953Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954José María Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist
- 1956David Caruso, American actor
- 1956Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1956Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1957Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1957Katie Couric, American television host
- 1957Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- 1957Reena Roy, Indian actress
- 1958Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
- 1958Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 1959Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
- 1959Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go’s)
- 1960David Marciano, American actor
- 1960Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U.S. Representative from California
- 1961Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
- 1961John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
- 1961Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1962Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
- 1962Hallie Todd, American actress
- 1963Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
- 1963Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky
- 1964Nicolas Cage, American actor
- 1966Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
- 1966Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
- 1967Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
- 1967Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
- 1967Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
- 1969David Yost, American actor
- 1970Doug E. Doug, American actor
- 1970Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
- 1970Todd Day, American basketball player
- 1971C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1971Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1971Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
- 1972Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
- 1973Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- 1973Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
- 1974Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete
- 1974John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
- 1975Tift Merritt, American singer songwriter
- 1976Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1976Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1977Dustin Diamond, American actor
- 1977John Gidding, American architect and TV host
- 1977Michelle Behennah, British model
- 1978Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent
- 1978Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
- 1978Kevin Mench, American baseball player
- 1979Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
- 1979Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1979Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
- 1980Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1980Zöe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
- 1981Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1982Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
- 1982Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
- 1983Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player (raised in Puerto Rico)
- 1983Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
- 1983Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1983Robert Ri'chard, American actor
- 1984Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
- 1984Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
- 1984Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1985Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
- 1985Wayne Routledge, English footballer
- 1986Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
- 1987Jimmy Smith, English footballer
- 1987Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
- 1988Haley Bennett, American singer and actress
- 1988Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- 1988Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
- 1989Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
- 1990Camryn Grimes, American actress
- 1990Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
- 1990Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
- 1990Liam Aiken, American actor
- 1991Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
- 1991Max Morrow, Canadian actor
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Who Died On January 7?
- 1285King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
- 1325King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
- 1400Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
- 1451Count Amadeus VIII of Svoy (b. 1383)
- 1536Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
- 1566Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
- 1619Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. c.1547)
- 1625Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c.1560)
- 1655Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- 1658Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
- 1694Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.1618)
- 1700Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
- 1715François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
- 1758Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1767Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
- 1770Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1783William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
- 1786Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- 1812Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
- 1830Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
- 1864Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
- 1876Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- 1878François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1892Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
- 1893Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1904Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (b. 1836)
- 1913Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1919Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
- 1920Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1927Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician (b. 1851)
- 1932André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
- 1936Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
- 1943Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
- 1944Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
- 1944Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
- 1946Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
- 1951René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
- 1953Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1960Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
- 1963Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1964Cyril Davies, English musician (b. 1932)
- 1966Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
- 1967Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
- 1967David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
- 1968Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
- 1968Prof. James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
- 1972Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (b. 1893)
- 1972John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1980Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
- 1981Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
- 1981Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- 1984Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1985Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
- 1986Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
- 1986P. D. Eastman, American children’s book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1988Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1988Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1989Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
- 1990Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
- 1990Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
- 1992Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
- 1995Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
- 1996Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 1996Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
- 1998Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 1998Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
- 2001James Carr, American Rhythm & Blues and soul musicians (b. 1942)
- 2002Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2002Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
- 2004Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- 2005Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
- 2005Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
- 2006Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
- 2007Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
- 2007Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
- 2008Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
- 2009Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
- 2010Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
- 2011Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
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