January 7

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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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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.
1789 - First nationwide United States election.
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.
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.
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
1539 - Sebasti�n 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, physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
1871 - Felix �douard Justin �mile Borel, mathematician, politician, statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II (d. 1956)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, producer (d. 1976)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
1890 - Henny Porten, actress (d. 1960)
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, author (d. 1960)
1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
1898 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (d. 1985)
1899 - Francis Poulenc, composer (d. 1963)
1901? - Zora Neale Hurston, writer (d. 1960)
1908 - Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (d. 1995)
1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
1912 - G�nther Wand, conductor
1915 - Erwin Wickert, narrator
1916 - Paul Keres, chess player (d. 1975)
1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician
1923 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
1925 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (d. 1995)
1928 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
1935 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
1942 - Paul Revere, singer and musician
1943 - Sadako Sasaki
1948 - Kenny Loggins, singer
1950 - Erin Gray, actress
1956 - David Caruso, actor
1957 - Nicholson Baker, novelist
1957 - Katie Couric, television host
1957 - Julian Solis, world champion boxer
1964 - Nicolas Cage, actor
1971 - David Yost, actor
1976 - �ric Gagn�, baseball pitcher
1976 - Alfonso Soriano, baseball player
1977 - Dustin Diamond, actor (Saved by the Bell)

Deaths

312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint
1325 - King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (b. 1485)
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
1872 - James Fisk, entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (b. 1835)
1920 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1972 - John Berryman, poet (b. 1914)
1988 - Trevor Howard, actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star (b. 1908)
1995 - Murray Rothbard, economist (b. 1926)
1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize (b.1906)
2002 - Avery Schreiber, actor (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

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

January 6 - January 8 - December 7 - February 7 -- listing of all days

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