January 7
January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining (359 in leap years). The day is 人日 (Jinjitsu), 七草の節句 in Japan. 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.1601 - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth1610 - 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 Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.1797 - The parliament of the Repubblica Cisalpina adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. 1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her 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." 1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.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.1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa kills 41 people.1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.1954 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.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.1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).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 100.1997 - A team of programmers at the University of Regensburg, Germany releases Tibia, one of the earliest graphical MMORPGs.1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
Births 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585) 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572) 1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer 1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844) 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, from 1850-1853 (d. 1874) 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal union and founder of the Universal postal union (d. 1897) 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874) 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879) 1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, mathematician, politician, statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II (d. 1956) 1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976) 1875 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (d. 1963) 1890 - Henny Porten, actress (d. 1960) 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (d. 1960) 1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984) 1898 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (d. 1985) 1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)1903:*Warren Hull, actor (d. 1974)*Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988) 1908 - Red Allen, American jazz musician (d. 1967) 1910:*Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. (1984)*Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994) 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) 1912:*Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)*Günther Wand, conductor1913 - Johnny Mize, baseball player (d. 1993) 1915 - Erwin Wickert, narrator 1916 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975) 1919 - Elena Ceausescu, wife of Nicolae Ceausescu (1989) 1922:*Vincent Gardenia, actor (d. 1992)*Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000) 1923 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director 1925 - Gerald Durrell British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (d. 1995) 1928:*William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter*Clyde Snow, forensic anthropologist1929 - Terry Moore, American actress1930 - Douglas Kiker, journalist (d. 1991) 1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut 1942:*Vassily Alexeyev, Russian weightlifter*Paul Revere, American singer and musician 1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atom bomb victim (d. 1955)1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)1946 - Jann Wenner, publisher 1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer 1950 - Erin Gray, American actress 1956 - David Caruso, American actor 1957:*Nicholson Baker, American novelist*Katie Couric, American television host*Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor 1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, publicist (d. 1999) 1971:*Kevin Rahm, American actor*David Yost, American actor 1976:*Ivan Petrov, Bulgarian poet*Eric Gagné, Canadian baseball pitcher*Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player 1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
Deaths 312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint1325 - King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)1536 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (b. 1485)1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (b. 1835)1920 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor, electrical engineer (b. 1856)1964 - Cyril Davies, blues musician (b. 1932)1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)1975 - Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish statesman Eamon de Valera (b. 1878)1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star (b. 1908)1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b.1906)2000 - Don Martin, illustrator2002 - Avery Schreiber, actor (b. 1935)2002 - Jon Lee, drummer from Feeder2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)2005 - Rosemary Kennedy, third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy (b. 1918)2005 - Eileen Desmond, former Minister for Health & Social Welfare (b. 1932)2005 - Ivar Medaas, Norwegian musician
Holidays and observances Catholicism - Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort. Christmas Day in the Julian calendar. This is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Orthodox churches, e.g. the Coptic Orthodox, Macedonian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Anthiochian Orthodox as well as the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens & Egypt. European traditional - Distaff day: women's traditional work begins again after Epiphany. Ken Lane was born, King of Cordania
External links BBC: On This Day
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