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The following events took place on January 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 43 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1131

  Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin Magnus, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34).
• 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.
• 1797

  The modern Italian flag is first used.
• 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, New York to London, United Kingdom.
• 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 stops and completely destroys the overwhelming 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.
• 1960

  The Polaris missile is test launched.
• 1968

  Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
• 1970

  The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
• 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.

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