Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: 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 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
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
- 1598 –Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
- 1782 –The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1894 –William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1920 –The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1942 –World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1954 –Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1959 –The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 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).
- 1993 –The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
Who were born on January 7?
- 1502 –Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1718 –Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- 1875 –Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1888 –Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982)
- 1924 –Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
- 1925 –Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
- 1956 –Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1963 –Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
- 1971 –Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1982 –Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
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