Events

Pre-1600

• 49 BC The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.

• 1078 The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor.

• 1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

• 1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

1601–1900

• 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

• 1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.

• 1708 Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.

• 1708 Bashkir rebels besiege Yelabuga.

• 1738 A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.

• 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.

• 1835 , with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.

• 1867 The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.

• 1894 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.

1901–present

• 1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".

• 1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.

• 1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

• 1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.

• 1927 The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.

• 1928 A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.

• 1931 Guy 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.

• 1935 Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

• 1940 Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

• 1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

• 1950 In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.

• 1954 Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

• 1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

• 1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

• 1968 Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.

• 1972 Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.

• 1973 In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.

• 1979 Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

• 1980 U.S. 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).

• 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 Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.

• 1991 Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

• 1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.

• 1993 Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.

• 1994 A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.

• 1999 The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

• 2012 A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

• 2015 Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.

• 2015 A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

• 2020 The 6.4 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.

• 2023 The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

• 2025 A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.

Births

Pre-1600

• 889 Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (died 943)

• 1355 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1397)

• 1414 Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1451)

• 1502 Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)

1601–1900

• 1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and composer (died 1666)

• 1647 William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (died 1677)

• 1685 Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agronomist and businessman (died 1761)

• 1706 Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (died 1751)

• 1713 Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director and manager (died 1785)

• 1718 Israel Putnam, American general (died 1790)

• 1746 George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1823)

• 1768 Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (died 1844)

• 1797 Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (died 1849)

• 1800 Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)

• 1814 Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (died 1837)

• 1815 Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (died 1882)

• 1827 Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)

• 1830 Albert Bierstadt, American painter (died 1902)

• 1831 Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (died 1897)

• 1832 James Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (died 1908)

• 1834 Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (died 1874)

• 1837 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (died 1899)

• 1844 Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (died 1879)

• 1856 Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (died 1926)

• 1858 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)

• 1863 Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (died 1955)

• 1871 Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (died 1956)

• 1873 Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (died 1914)

• 1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (died 1976)

• 1875 Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (died 1945)

• 1876 William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (died 1906)

• 1877 William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (died 1928)

• 1889 Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina (died 1982)

• 1890 Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (died 1965)

• 1891 Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (died 1960)

• 1895 Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (died 1974)

• 1898 Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; (died 1941)

• 1899 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (died 1963)

• 1899 F. Orlin Tremaine, American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (Astounding Stories) (died 1956)

• 1900 John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer (died 1969)

1901–present

• 1903 Alan Napier, English actor (died 1988)

• 1903 Hooley Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1963)

• 1904 Joseph Whitty, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike at Curragh Internment camp (died 1923)

• 1908 Red Allen, American trumpet player (died 1967)

• 1910 Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (died 1994)

• 1912 Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (died 1988)

• 1913 Francis de Wolff, English actor (died 1984)

• 1913 Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1993)

• 1916 W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (died 1989)

• 1916 Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1988)

• 1920 Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (died 1992)

• 1921 Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (died 1997)

• 1921 Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (died 1975)

• 1922 Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

• 1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (died 2000)

• 1923 Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (died 2003)

• 1923 Vaklush Tolev, Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (died 2013)

• 1924 Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (died 2017)

• 1925 Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (died 1995)

• 1926 Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2018)

• 1928 William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter (died 2017)

• 1929 Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (died 2012)

• 1929 Terry Moore, American actress

• 1931 Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (died 2013)

• 1933 Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (died 2010)

• 1934 Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2002)

• 1934 Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (died 2008)

• 1935 Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist (died 2006)

• 1935 Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)

• 1935 Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and international jurist (died 2017)

• 1936 Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist

• 1938 Bob Boland, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1938 Lou Graham, American golfer

• 1938 Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (died 1972)

• 1941 Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (died 2004)

• 1941 John Steiner, English actor (died 2022)

• 1941 John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1942 Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (died 2011)

• 1943 Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (died 1955)

• 1944 Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer

• 1944 Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic (died 2020)

• 1945 Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (died 1990)

• 1945 Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya (died 2025)

• 1945 Peter Schowtka, German politician (died 2022)

• 1946 Michele Elliott, author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape

• 1946 Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone

• 1947 Tony Elliott, English publisher, founded Time Out (died 2020)

• 1948 Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter

• 1950 Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2016)

• 1952 Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist

• 1953 Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor

• 1954 Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach

• 1955 Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress

• 1956 David Caruso, American actor

• 1957 Nicholson Baker, American novelist and essayist

• 1957 Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author

• 1959 Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician

• 1959 Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter

• 1960 Loretta Sanchez, American politician

• 1961 John Thune, American lawyer and politician

• 1962 Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views

• 1962 Ron Rivera, American football player and coach

• 1963 Rand Paul, American politician and physician

• 1964 Nicolas Cage, American actor

• 1965 Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1965 Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian runner

• 1967 Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 1967 Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster

• 1969 Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager

• 1970 Andy Burnham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

• 1971 Kevin Rahm, American actor

• 1971 Jeremy Renner, American actor

• 1972 Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist

• 1974 Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician

• 1976 Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer

• 1976 Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player

• 1976 Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player

• 1977 Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (died 2021)

• 1977 Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright

• 1977 Brent Sopel, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1978 Dean Cosker, English cricketer and umpire

• 1978 Israel Keyes, American serial killer (died 2012)

• 1979 Reggie Austin, American actor

• 1979 Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist

• 1980 Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player

• 1981 Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 Marquis Daniels, American basketball player

• 1981 Travis Friend, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1982 Lauren Cohan, American-English actress

• 1982 Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1982 Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer

• 1983 Brett Dalton, American actor

• 1983 Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player

• 1983 Cappie Pondexter, American basketball player

• 1984 Jon Lester, American baseball player

• 1985 Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver

• 1985 Wayne Routledge, English footballer

• 1987 Davide Astori, Italian footballer (died 2018)

• 1987 Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer

• 1987 Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress

• 1988 Haley Bennett, American actress and singer

• 1988 Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer

• 1990 Liam Aiken, American actor

• 1990 Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler

• 1990 Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper

• 1991 Tucker Barnhart, American baseball player

• 1991 Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 1991 Caster Semenya, South African sprinter

• 1991 Michael Walters, Australian footballer

• 1992 Erik Gudbranson, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1992 Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1994 Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player

• 1994 Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer

• 1994 MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1995 Jordan Bell, American basketball player

• 1995 Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player

• 1996 Alex Nedeljkovic, American ice hockey player

• 1997 Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player

• 1997 Lamar Jackson, American football player

• 2000 Marcus Scribner, American actor

• 2003 Ryan Dunn, American basketball player

• 2007 Chloe Chua, Singaporean violinist, 2018 joint 1st prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists

• 2012 Blue Ivy Carter, American singer and actress

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 312 Lucian of Antioch, Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (born 240)

• 838 Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate

• 856 Aldric, bishop of Le Mans

• 1131 Canute Lavard, Danish prince and saint (born 1096)

• 1285 Charles I of Naples (born 1226)

• 1325 Denis of Portugal (born 1261)

• 1355 Inês de Castro, Castilian noblewoman (born 1325)

• 1400 John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (born 1350)

• 1451 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (born 1383)

• 1529 Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (born 1455)

• 1536 Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England (born 1485)

• 1566 Louis de Blois, Flemish monk and author (born 1506)

1601–1900

• 1619 Nicholas Hilliard, English painter and goldsmith (born 1547)

• 1625 Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and author (born 1560)

• 1655 Pope Innocent X (born 1574)

• 1658 Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony (born 1590)

• 1694 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (born 1618)

• 1700 Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (born 1618)

• 1715 François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)

• 1758 Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (born 1686)

• 1767 Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (born 1703)

• 1770 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (born 1695)

• 1812 Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (born 1768)

• 1830 John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (born 1770)

• 1830 Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (born 1769)

• 1858 Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1800)

• 1864 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (born 1808)

• 1888 Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (born 1824)

• 1892 Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (born 1852)

• 1893 Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (born 1835)

1901–present

• 1912 Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (born 1840)

• 1919 Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (born 1843)

• 1920 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1849)

• 1927 Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1851)

• 1931 Edward Channing, American historian and author (born 1856)

• 1932 André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (born 1877)

• 1936 Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (born 1858)

• 1941 Charles Finger, English journalist and author (born 1869)

• 1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and engineer (born 1856)

• 1951 René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (born 1886)

• 1960 Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (born 1878)

• 1963 Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (born 1876)

• 1964 Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (born 1911)

• 1967 David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (born 1917)

• 1967 Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (born 1880)

• 1968 J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (born 1897)

• 1972 John Berryman, American poet and scholar (born 1914)

• 1981 Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer (born 1908)

• 1981 Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (born 1926)

• 1984 Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)

• 1986 Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (born 1917)

• 1988 Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (born 1919)

• 1988 Trevor Howard, English actor (born 1913)

• 1989 Hirohito, Japanese emperor (born 1901)

• 1990 Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (born 1908)

• 1992 Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1951)

• 1995 Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and theorist (born 1926)

• 1996 Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1930)

• 1998 Owen Bradley, American record producer (born 1915)

• 1998 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

• 2000 Gary Albright, American wrestler (born 1963)

• 2001 James Carr, American singer (born 1942)

• 2002 Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (born 1935)

• 2004 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (born 1926)

• 2005 Pierre Daninos, French author (born 1913)

• 2006 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (born 1912)

• 2007 Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (born 1957)

• 2007 Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (born 1929)

• 2008 Alwyn Schlebusch, South African academic and politician, Vice State President of South Africa (born 1917)

• 2012 Tony Blankley, British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (born 1948)

• 2014 Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (born 1907)

• 2015 Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (born 1936)

• 2015 Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1930)

• 2015 Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (born 1934)

• 2016 Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (born 1929)

• 2016 John Johnson, American basketball player (born 1947)

• 2016 Kitty Kallen, American singer (born 1921)

• 2016 Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (born 1938)

• 2016 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (born 1936)

• 2017 Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (born 1924)

• 2018 Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (born 1938)

• 2018 France Gall, French singer (born 1947)

• 2020 Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1952)

• 2020 Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (born 1974)

• 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (born 1967)

• 2021 Michael Apted, English filmmaker (born 1941)

• 2021 Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1927)

• 2021 Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (born 1932)

• 2024 Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1945)

• 2025 Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (born 1928)

• 2025 Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1938)

• 2026 Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (born 1931)

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day:

• André Bessette (Canada)

• Blessed Marie Thérèse Haze

• Canute Lavard

• Felix and Januarius

• Lucian of Antioch

• Raymond of Penyafort

• Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian calendar)

• January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari)

• Christmas in Russia

• Christmas in Ukraine

• Christmas in Serbia

• Ethiopian Christmas

• Remembrance Day of the Dead (Armenia)

• Distaff Day (medieval Europe)

• Pioneer's Day (Liberia)

• Tricolour Day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)

• Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 7