Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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 Americann 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." 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. 1995 - An investigation that started in the night of January 5 after an apartment fire continues as a search warrant gets granted. The information on the computer and the bomb-making supplies found in the apartment room lead police officers lead by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators into foiling Project Bojinka, a mass-scale terrorist attack that was planned to start on January 21 and end in January 22 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. 2000 - The 3rd day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit Births 1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish Lexicographer 1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples († 1844) 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, from 1850-1853 († 1874) 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) 1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, mathematician, politician, statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II († 1956) 1873 - Adolph Zukor, producer († 1976) 1890 - Henny Porten, actress († 1960) 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, author († 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) 1912 - Günther Wand, conductor 1915 - Erwin Wickert, narrator 1916 - Paul Keres, chess player († 1975) 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician 1923 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director 1925 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter († 1995) 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 1957 - Nicholson Baker, novelist 1964 - Nicolas Cage, actor Deaths 312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint 1325 - King Dinis of Portugal 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1872 - James Fisk, entrepreneur 1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (* 1835) 1972 - John Berryman, 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. 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