Today
Wednesday January 7 2026
- Day of the year
- 7/ 365
- Week
- 22,026
- Days left
- 3582%
- Moon
- 78%Waning gibbous
Today is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. It is day 7 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 358 remain, and 2% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 2.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- January 24International Day of Education
- January 27International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- February 2World Wetlands Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Raymond of PenyafortDominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia
- Canute LavardDuke of Schleswig and Danish prince
- Lucian of AntiochChristian martyr, presbyter and theologian (died 312)
- PolyeuctusRoman Armenian martyr and saint (died 259)
- Kyros of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 705 to 712
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:20
- Sunset
- 16:45
- Length of day
- 9h 25m+1 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:02
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 72 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. — January 19, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning gibbous
Illumination : 78%
Moon age : 18.6 days
- Next full moon
- February 1, 2026
- Next new moon
- January 18, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Capricorn
until January 20, 2026 — Aquarius
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1325
Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal. Wikipedia
1558
French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England. Wikipedia
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. Wikipedia
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. Wikipedia
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. Wikipedia
1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. Wikipedia
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1959
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Wikipedia
1979
Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Wikipedia
1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. Wikipedia
2015
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day January 7
- 1502Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)
- 1768Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (died 1844)
- 1800Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)
- 1827Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)
- 1830Albert Bierstadt, American painter (died 1902)
- 1844Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (died 1879)
- 1873Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (died 1976)
- 1934Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (died 2008)
Died on this day January 7
- 1285Charles I of Naples (born 1226)aged 59 years
- 1451Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (born 1383)aged 68 years
- 1536Catherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England (born 1485)aged 51 years
- 1619Nicholas Hilliard, English painter and goldsmith (born 1547)aged 72 years
- 1655Pope Innocent X (born 1574)aged 81 years
- 1715François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)aged 64 years
- 1984Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)aged 82 years
- 1998Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)aged 92 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:20 and sets at 16:45, giving 9h 25m of daylight — 1 minute more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 72 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 78% illuminated. The next full moon falls on February 1, 2026 and the next new moon on January 18, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches January 7 to Raymond of Penyafort, Canute Lavard and Lucian of Antioch.
No United Nations international day falls on January 7. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Education, on January 24.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal (1325); French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England (1558). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Pope Gregory XIII was born on January 7, 1502; Charles I of Naples died on January 7, 1285.
352 days remain until Christmas and 359 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — January 7 falls under the sign of Capricorn.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 2%
- of the year elapsed
- 352
- until Christmas
- 359
- until New Year
- 783
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26