Historical Events on January 7, Special Events on This Day

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What Happened on January 7th This Day in History

Year Name
2020 The 6.4Mw  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2015 Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
2015 A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2012 A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
1999 The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
1994 A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993 Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1991 Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1985 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1984 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1979 Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1973 In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1972 Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1968 Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1940 Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1935 Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1931 Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1928 A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1927 The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1894 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing.[10] On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1782 The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1738 A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
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 day.
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1325 Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
49 The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
Famous People Born on January 7

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Year Name
1985 Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
1912 Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988)
1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
1815 Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (d.1882)
1713 Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director and manager (d. 1785)
1877 William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1928)
1943 Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (d. 1955)
1977 Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
1962 Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
1923 Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
Famous People Deaths On January 7

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Date Name
1864 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
2021 Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
1767 Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (b. 1703)
1451 Amadeus VIII of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
1972 John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
2012 Tony Blankley, British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (b. 1948)
838 Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
1858 Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
1770 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
2002 Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)