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January 7: Day of the Week
January 7, 2024 was the 7th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 359 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.
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Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
January 7 Historical Event(s)
1598
Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia.
1782
The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1904
The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1950
A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
1952
President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
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.
1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Who were born on January 7?
1837
Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
1925
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
1933
Elliott Kastner, American film producer (d. 2010)
1935
Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
1941
Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1946
Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
1947
Shobha De, Indian writer
1959
Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
1971
C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
1982
Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
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