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 Elizabeth
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.
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 (d. 1874)
1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, German]] postal union organizer (d. 1897)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
1860 - Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, French mathematician, politician, statesmen, and resistance fighter (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)
1903 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
1908 - Red Allen, American jazz musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. (1984)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas and segregationist (d. 1994)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
1912 - Günther Wand, conductor
1913 - 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)
1922 - 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
1928 - Clyde Snow, forensic anthropologist
1929 - Terry Moore, American actress
1930 - Douglas Kiker, journalist (d. 1991)
1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
1935 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Vassily Alexeyev, Russian weightlifter
1942 - 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
1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, publicist (d. 1999)
1971 - Kevin Rahm, American actor
1971 - David Yost, American actor
1976 - Ivan Petrov, Bulgarian poet
1976 - Eric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor

Deaths

312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint
1325 - 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)
1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
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 politician
1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b.1906)
2000 - Don Martin, illustrator
2002 - Avery Schreiber, actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Jon Lee, drummer from Feeder
2005 - 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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