What holiday is celebrated on January 7: all about this day

On January 7, Orthodox believers celebrate the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. The feast recalls an important event in the life of Jesus Christ - his baptism, which marked the beginning of his ministry. Name days are celebrated by Ivan, Vasyl, and Afanasiy.

The world celebrates World Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day, Old Stone Day (or Fossil Day), I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore Day, and Coptic Christmas. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on January 7

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a religious holiday dedicated to one of the most revered saints in Christianity - John the Baptist. This saint played a key role in the life of Jesus by baptizing him in the Jordan River. On this day, solemn services are held in churches. Believers turn to John the Baptist with prayers, asking for his intercession and grace. In some regions, there are also folk customs associated with the holiday, such as the blessing of water.

The weather on this day was used to predict what kind of spring it would be. If it suddenly warmed up on January 7, spring would be early. The moon shines brightly at night, and the sky is clear and starry - before severe frosts. People used to say that the more snow there is, the more productive the year will be.

On January 7, we celebrate Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day. The holiday was founded in 1935 in Austria, when the initiators decided to dedicate this day to the popularization of philately through stamp exhibitions and events organized by post offices around the world. In 1937, the International Philatelic Federation (FIP) officially declared January 7 as World Postage Stamp Day.

January 7 is also Fossil Day (or Old Rock Day). The unofficial holiday is dedicated to the study and collection of stones that hold the secrets of past eras. In the course of research, it was determined that fossils are evidence of the life of our ancestors, which has been preserved in the form of clear imprints of their existence.

Countries around the world celebrate January 7:

• Victory Day or Victory over Genocide in Cambodia;

• National Flag Day in Italy;
• The Seven Herbs Festival in Japan.

Notable historical events on January 7

• 1610 - Galileo Galilei first observed the four largest moons of Jupiter through the telescope of the University of Padua.
• 1714 - British Henry Mill patented the typewriter.
• 1782 - the first American commercial bank opens in Philadelphia.
• 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries flew in a balloon from British Dover to French Calais.
• 1797 - The Cispadan Republic (Reggio Emilia) first used the Italian tricolor as its national flag.
• 1839 - Birthday of photography. During a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, François Arago described in detail the first optical-chemical method of image acquisition in the history of mankind.
• 1887 - American Thomas Stevens from San Francisco completes the first trip around the world by bicycle, having started the journey in April 1884.

• 1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made from New York to London.
• 1929 - milk was sold in cartons for the first time in the world in New York.
• 1929 - One of the first adventure comics, Tarzan, was published.
• 1949 - the University of Southern California in Los Angeles announces the first photograph of genes.
• 1949 - the concentration camp in Yavorzhna, founded by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party as a transit camp for Ukrainians suspected of having ties to the OUN and UPA, is officially liquidated.
• 1953 - US President Harry Truman announces that the United States has a hydrogen bomb.
• 1979 - the invasion of Vietnamese troops overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and ended the genocide organized by the latter.
• 1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India again.

• 1989 - Crown Prince Akihito of Japan is proclaimed the new emperor. A new era of Heisei has begun in Japan.
• 1992 - AT&T launches the first video phone.
• 1999 - the US Senate begins hearings on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who was accused of lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
• 2015 - terrorist attack in Paris: two armed Islamic terrorists wearing masks attack the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and kill 12 people.

Who was born on January 7

• 1502 - Gregory XIII, Pope, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in all Catholic countries.
• 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (1850-1853).
• 1827 - Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer of Scottish descent, inventor.
• 1834 - Philipp Reiss, German physicist, inventor of the telephone.

• 1871 - Emile Borel, French mathematician.
• 1925 - Gerald Durrell, English naturalist and writer.
• 1930 - Volodymyr Denysenko, Ukrainian film director and screenwriter.
• 1945 - Yukhym Husar, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
• 1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer, author of soundtracks.
• 1964 - Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Coppola), American film actor, director, producer.
• 1972 - Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player.
• 1985 - Lewis Hamilton, British racing driver, seven-time Formula 1 champion.

Died on this day:

• 1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter.
• 1933 - Mykola Sadovskyi, Ukrainian actor and director.
• 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian and American inventor and physicist.
• 1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist, jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975) with John Cornforth.

• 2011 - Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, Ukrainian philologist and literary critic, active participant in the Sixties movement.
• 2021 - Marion Ramsey, American actress and singer.

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