| Holiday name | Holiday location | Holiday type |
|---|---|---|
| Victory over Genocide Day | Cambodia | Public Holiday |
| Orthodox Christmas Day | Multiple [Show] | National Holiday, Orthodox |
| Orthodox Christmas Day | Multiple [Show] | National Holiday, Orthodox |
| Christmas Day | Multiple [Show] | Official Holiday |
| Coptic Christmas Day | Egypt | National Holiday |
| Christmas Day (Orthodox) | Montenegro | National Holiday, Orthodox |
| Pioneers Day | Liberia | Observance |
| Old Rock Day | - | Unofficial (Nature & Environment) |
| Ethiopian Christmas Day | Ethiopia | Public Holiday |
| National Bobblehead Day | - | Unofficial (Fun & Joy) |
| National Tempura Day | - | Unofficial (Food & Drinks) |
| Constitution Day | Ghana | Public Holiday |
| Baptism of the Jesus | - | Christian |
| National Pass Gas Day | - | Unofficial (Health & Body, Weird & Obscure) |
| Harlem Globetrotters Day | - | Unofficial (Sports) |
| I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore Day | - | Unofficial (Relationships & Family, Work & Occupation) |
Historical Events on January 7
- 1610: Three of Jupiter’s moons are discovered by Galileo on this day. These three moons are Io, Europa and Ganymede.
- 1714: Henry Mill receives a patent for the typewriter.
- 1782: The Bank of North America becomes the first commercial bank to open in the U.S.
- 1785: American John Jeffries and Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard travel to Calais, France from Dover, England in a gas balloon.
- 1894: The patent for motion picture film is given to William Kennedy Dickson.
- 1904: “CQD” is established as the distress signal. Two years later, it would be replaced by “SOS”.
- 1954: The Georgetown IBM experiment takes place on this day.
- 1959: Fidel Castro’s Cuban government is officially recognized by the U.S.
- 1968: The Surveyor 7 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1980: One and a half billion dollars in loans are given to the Chrysler Corporation as a bailout.
- 1999: For the impeachment of United States’ President Bill Clinton, the Senate trial begins on this day.
- 2012: Eleven people are killed near Carterton, New Zealand when a hot air balloon crashes.
- 2015: Twelve people are killed and eleven others are wounded, when two gunmen begin murdering people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, France.
Famous Birthdays on January 7
- American lawyer and 13th President of the U.S., Millard Fillmore is born in 1800.
- French nun and saint, Bernadette Soubirous is born in 1844.
- Hungarian-American producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Adolph Zukor is born in 1873.
- American novelist, writer and folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston is born in 1891.
- American author and screenwriter William Peter Blatty is born in 1928.
- Australian painter and sculptor Robert Juniper is born in 1929.
- American producer Elliott Kastner is born in 1933.
- English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, John E. Walker is born in 1941.
- American director and screenwriter Danny Steinmann is born in 1942.
- American publisher and co-founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, Jann Wenner is born in 1946.
- American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins is born in 1948.
- American actor Jeremy Renner is born in 1971.
- Australian cyclist Shane Kelly is born in 1972.
