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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 7
- 1325 –Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1927 –The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1935 –Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 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.
- 1980 –President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 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.
- 1989 –Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 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.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1647 –Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1941 –Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
- 1945 –Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1956 –Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1960 –David Marciano, American actor
- 1967 –Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
- 1974 –Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete
- 1981 –Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 –Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1991 –Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
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