January 7

January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are
358 days remaining (359 in leap years).

Events

   * 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal
   * 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England
   * 1566 - Pius V becomes Pope
   * 1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia
   * 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for
     the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the
     Galilean moons.
   * 1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North
     America).
   * 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries
     travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming
     the first to cross the English Channel by air
   * 1789 - First nationwide United States election
   * 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
   * 1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes first cookbook
   * 1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for
     cannibalism
   * 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two
     years later by "SOS."
   * 1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London
   * 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game
   * 1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister
     Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
   * 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins
   * 1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in
     which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge
   * 1953 - President Harry Truman announces development of the hydrogen
     bomb
   * 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel
     Castro
   * 1975 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
   * 1979 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are overthrown by Vietnamese troops
   * 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5
     billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation
   * 1989 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan
   * 1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety
     concerns.
   * 1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American. history hits eastern
     states killing more than 100.
   * 1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.

Births

   * 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (+ 1844)
   * 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853
   * 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and
     founder of the Universal postal union (+ 1897)
   * 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, physicist and inventor (+ 1874)
   * 1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (+ 1921)
   * 1871 - Felix ƒdouard Justin ƒmile Borel, mathematician, politician,
     statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II (+ 1956)
   * 1873 - Adolph Zukor, producer (+ 1976)
   * 1890 - Henny Porten, actress (+ 1960)
   * 1898 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (+ 1985)
   * 1899 - Francis Poulenc, composer (+ 1963)
   * 1901? - Zora Neale Hurston, writer (+ 1960)
   * 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (+ 1994)
   * 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (+ 1995)
   * 1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (+ 1988)
   * 1915 - Erwin Wickert, narrator
   * 1916 - Paul Keres, chess player
   * 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
   * 1923 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
   * 1928 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
   * 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
   * 1942 - Paul Revere, singer and musician
   * 1948 - Kenny Loggins, singer
   * 1956 - David Caruso, actor
   * 1957 - Katie Couric, television host
   * 1957 - Julian Solis, world champion boxer
   * 1964 - Nicolas Cage, actor

Deaths

   * 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England
   * 1872 - James Fisk, entrepreneur
   * 1893 - Jo?ef Stefan, physicist, mathematician and poet
   * 1988 - Trevor Howard, actor
   * 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
   * 1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star

Holidays and observances

   * Catholicism - Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort.
   * Julian calendar Christmas

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