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Historical Events on January 7

1131
Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin, Magnus I of Sweden.
1325
Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558
France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1566
Pope Pius V is elected.
1608
Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
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.
1782
The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1835
HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894
William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904
The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922
Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1927
The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
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.
1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940
Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stop and completely destroy the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942
World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945
World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1959
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1968
Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1973
Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979
Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980
U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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.
1991
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1992
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is introduced at the Detroit Auto Show.
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.
1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2012
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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.

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