Month January 2007 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

• January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
  
  January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 2007

• Day of Week 1st » Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone.
• 1st » Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
• Day of Week 4th » The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives or Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
• Day of Week 9th » Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first IPhone (original) or iPhone.
• Day of Week 10th » A 2007 Guinean general strike named general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
• Day of Week 12th » Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches Apsis named perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
• Day of Week 15th » Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
• Day of Week 17th » The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
• Day of Week 20th » A three-man team, using only kite skiing skis and kites, completes a convert 1093 mi km adj=on trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• Day of Week 22nd » At least 88 people are killed when 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings e.g two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
• Day of Week 31st » 31 January 2007 Birmingham raid e.g Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

Famous Deaths for January 2007

• 1st » Leon Davidson, American engineer and scientist (b. 1922)
• 1st » Roland Levinsky, South African scientist (b. 1943)
• 1st » Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2nd » Garry Betty, American businessman (b. 1957)
• 2nd » Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2nd » Mauno Jokipii, Finnish academic and author (b. 1924)
• 2nd » Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician (b. 1911)
• 2nd » Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929)
• 2nd » A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
• 2nd » David Perkins (geneticist) known as David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2nd » Robert C. Solomon, American scholar (b. 1942)
• 3rd » János Fürst, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1935)
• 3rd » Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 3rd » Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
• 3rd » William Verity, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
• 3rd » Cecil Walker, Irish politician (b. 1924)
• 4th » Gren, Welsh cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 4th » Ben Gannon (producer) known as Ben Gannon, Australian film and television producer (b. 1952)
• 4th » Helen Hill, American director and producer (b. 1970)
• 4th » Lewis Hodges, English pilot (b. 1918)
• 4th » Steve Krantz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 4th » Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1949)
• 4th » Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
• 4th » Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
• 4th » Marais Viljoen, South African politician, 5th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 4th » Osman Waqialla, Sudanese calligrapher (b. 1925)
• 5th » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
• 5th » Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
• 6th » Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
• 6th » Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American guitarist and songwriter (The Flying Burrito Brothers) (b. 1934)
• 6th » Roberta Wohlstetter, American historian (b. 1912)
• 7th » Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
• 7th » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
• 8th » Jane Bolin, American judge (b. 1908)
• 8th » Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English politician (b. 1916)
• 8th » Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 8th » David Ervine, Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 8th » Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 9th » Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
• 9th » Jean-Pierre Vernant, French anthropologist and historian (b. 1914)
• 10th » Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
• 10th » Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910)
• 12th » Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 12th » James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
• 13th » Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead) (b. 1949)
• 13th » Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b. 1911)
• 14th » Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
• 14th » Barbara Kelly, Canadian-English actress (b. 1924)
• 14th » Robert Noortman, Dutch art dealer (b. 1946)
• 14th » Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, director, and set designer (b. 1934)
• 15th » Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
• 15th » Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence officer (b. 1951)
• 15th » James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
• 15th » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino diplomat (b. 1905)
• 15th » David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
• 16th » Ron Carey (actor) e.g Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
• 16th » Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
• 17th » Art Buchwald, American journalist (b. 1925)
• 17th » Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
• 18th » Brent Liles, American bass player (Agent Orange (band) known as Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
• 19th » Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• 19th » Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
• 19th » Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
• 19th » Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 21st » U;Nee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1981)
• 21st » Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977)
• 22nd » Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
• 22nd » Ngo Quang Truong, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
• 22nd » Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
• 23rd » Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928)
• 23rd » E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (b. 1918)
• 23rd » Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 23rd » Tatiana Mamaki, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1921)
• 24th » Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
• 24th » Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
• 24th » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican soldier (b. 1891)
• 26th » Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 27th » Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
• 27th » Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete (b. 1933)
• 27th » Alberta Davis, American super-centenarian ( b. 1881)
• 28th » Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
• 28th » Robert Drinan, American priest and politician (b. 1920)
• 28th » Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
• 28th » Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)
• 28th » Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
• 28th » Teala Loring, American actress (b. 1922)
• 29th » Barbaro, American race horse (b. 2003)
• 29th » Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi cult leader (b. 1970)
• 30th » Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 30th » Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 31st » Kirka, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 31st » Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 31st » Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
• 31st » Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1957)
• 31st » Olevi Kull, Estonian ecologist and academic (b. 1955)
• 31st » Adelaide Tambo, South African activist (b. 1929)

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