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07 Jan 1325
Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal
07 Jan 1558
Calais last English possession in France retaken by French
07 Jan 1566
Antonio Michele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
07 Jan 1579
England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
07 Jan 1584
Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
07 Jan 1598
Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
07 Jan 1601
Robert Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
07 Jan 1622
Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
07 Jan 1654
Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp Netherlands 1 person dies
07 Jan 1714
Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
07 Jan 1761
Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten
07 Jan 1782
1st US commercial bank Bank of North America opens in Philadelphia
07 Jan 1784
1st US seed business established by David Landreth Philadelphia
07 Jan 1785
1st balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
07 Jan 1790
French Revolution A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices
07 Jan 1817
2nd Bank of US opens in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
07 Jan 1842
Gioacchino Rossinis cantata Stabat Mater premieres in Paris
07 Jan 1861
Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine (US Civil War)
07 Jan 1868
Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
07 Jan 1868
Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
07 Jan 1888
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Valley of Fear (BG)
07 Jan 1890
African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen
07 Jan 1892
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs Oklahoma blacks trying to help rescue white survivors driven away with guns
07 Jan 1893
Hermann Sudermanns Heimat premieres in Berlin
07 Jan 1896
Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
07 Jan 1899
Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Colliers
07 Jan 1903
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Blanched Soldier (BG)
07 Jan 1903
Vincent dIndys opera Letranger premieres in Brussells
07 Jan 1908
England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
07 Jan 1910
Stanley Cup Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
07 Jan 1911
1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives San Francisco
07 Jan 1911
Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
07 Jan 1913
William M Burton patents a process to crack petroleum
07 Jan 1919
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa is founded led by Clements Kadalie
07 Jan 1919
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel but fail to prevent Serbias annexation of Montenegro
07 Jan 1920
Five duly elected Socialist assemblymen are denied by the New York State Assembly
07 Jan 1925
Musical Big Boy with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
07 Jan 1927
Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
07 Jan 1927
Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley Illinois
07 Jan 1929
Buck Rogers sci-fi comic strips 1st appearance in a newspaper
07 Jan 1929
Tarzan one of the 1st adventure comic strips 1st appears
07 Jan 1930
Edwin Justus Mayers Children of Darkness premieres in NYC
07 Jan 1930
Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr) the last naturally occurring element to be found
07 Jan 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 Zealands west coast.
07 Jan 1932
1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club Mich
07 Jan 1933
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
07 Jan 1934
Flash Gordon comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
07 Jan 1936
Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2001 times (1h18m)
07 Jan 1939
US workers union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
07 Jan 1940
Winter War The Finish 9th Division defeats the Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road despite being significantly outnumbered
07 Jan 1944
US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter the Bell P-59
07 Jan 1945
Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes
07 Jan 1945
The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign World War II
07 Jan 1946
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
07 Jan 1947
Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
07 Jan 1948
Thomas Mantell a pilot for the Kentucky Air National Guard crashes while pursuing a supposed UFO
07 Jan 1949
1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
07 Jan 1950
Happy as Larry closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
07 Jan 1950
Hank Snows 1st appearance on Grand Ole Opry
07 Jan 1950
Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns kills 41 in Davenport Iowa
07 Jan 1953
US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb
07 Jan 1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system is held at IBMs head office in New York
07 Jan 1955
WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Jan 1956
Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ 413 opening stand with Roy
07 Jan 1957
Algerian militant and National Liberation Front member Djamila Bouhired sets off a bomb in an Algiers cafe killing 11 civilians precipitating the Battle of Algiers
07 Jan 1961
1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
07 Jan 1961
Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
07 Jan 1962
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
07 Jan 1963
1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
07 Jan 1964
Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
07 Jan 1965
France announces it will convert 150 million of its currency to gold
07 Jan 1965
Twin brothers are in held in custody in London charged with abduction and murder
07 Jan 1966
Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis to become NWA wrestling champion
07 Jan 1968
GE College Bowl quiz show premieres on NBC TV
07 Jan 1968
1st class US postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
07 Jan 1968
Surveyor 7 the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series lifts off
07 Jan 1971
-40F (-40C) in Hawley Lake Arizona (state record)
07 Jan 1972
Iberian Airlines plane crashes into 800ft peak on island of Ibiza 104 die
07 Jan 1972
LA Lakers win their 33rd straight game setting a still standing NBA record for longest streak
07 Jan 1972
Lewis F. Powell Jr. becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
07 Jan 1972
William Hubbs Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
07 Jan 1973
Purlie closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
07 Jan 1973
British Darts Organisation founded in North London
07 Jan 1973
Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
07 Jan 1973
WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
07 Jan 1975
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
07 Jan 1975
Gary Geld & Peter Udells musical Shenandoah premieres in NYC for 1050 performances
07 Jan 1975
Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing 30000 damage
07 Jan 1978
Angola revises its constitution in include a state security law
07 Jan 1979
Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
07 Jan 1979
AFC Championship Three Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers 34-5
07 Jan 1979
NFC Championship LA Memorial Coliseum Dallas Cowboys beat Los Angeles Rams 28-0
07 Jan 1980
Minn ends Philadelphia Flyers NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
07 Jan 1983
Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
07 Jan 1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
07 Jan 1985
King & I opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
07 Jan 1985
Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halleys comet
07 Jan 1985
KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
07 Jan 1985
Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to Baseballs Hall of Fame
07 Jan 1986
STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
07 Jan 1986
US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya
07 Jan 1987
French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
07 Jan 1989
International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
07 Jan 1989
NBAs Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
07 Jan 1989
Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
07 Jan 1990
Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 1522.64
07 Jan 1990
Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
07 Jan 1992
Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseballs Hall of Fame
07 Jan 1993
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
07 Jan 1993
Bosnian War Bosnian Army launches a surprise attack on Kravica a village in Srebrenica
07 Jan 1994
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
07 Jan 1994
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
07 Jan 1994
United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio killing 5
07 Jan 1994
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Petr Korda defeats Bernd Karbacher of Germany 6-3 6-3 for an unassailable 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) and the Czech Republics first title
07 Jan 1995
Christmas Carol closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 performances
07 Jan 1995
Passion closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
07 Jan 1996
Crazy after You closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 performances
07 Jan 1996
Fool Moon closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after performances
07 Jan 1996
16th United Negro College Fund raises 12600000
07 Jan 2000
Former UK Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken released from prison after 9 months of a 18-month sentence
07 Jan 2003
In Da Club single is released by 50 Cent (MTV Video Music Award Best Rap Video and Best New Artist Billboard Song of the Year )
07 Jan 2007
Danish TV drama The Killing created by Sren Sveistrup and starring Sofie Grbl premieres on DR1
07 Jan 2008
13th Critics Choice Movie Awards No Country for Old Men wins Best Film
07 Jan 2010
Muslim gunmen in Egypt kill nine people after opening fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians
07 Jan 2012
Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton New Zealand killing 11
07 Jan 2012
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Tom Berdych beats Frenchman Richard Gasquet 7-6 6-4 for an unassailable 2-0 lead 2nd title for Czech Republic
07 Jan 2014
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins re-election in Bangladesh general election
07 Jan 2015
A car bomb explodes in Sanaa the capital of Yemen killing 38 people and injuring more than 63
07 Jan 2017
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth French pair Kristina Mladenovic & Richard Gasquet beat Americans Coco Vandeweghe & Jack Sock 4-1 4-3 to clinch 2-1 win 2nd French title
07 Jan 2018
Sydney Australia has its hottest day for 80 years as Penrith reaches 47.3 degrees
07 Jan 2018
It snows in the Sahara desert - 15 inches reported in An Sfra Northwest Algeria
07 Jan 1910
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON) 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
07 Jan 1915
World War I Germanys Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain but forbids bombing London fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
07 Jan 1962
1st AFL All Star Game Balboa Stadium SD Western Division beats Eastern Division 47-27 MVP Cotton Davidson Dallas Texans QB
07 Jan 1972
Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks 134-90 for their 33rd straight win the longest winning streak in major professional sports
07 Jan 1973
American poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
07 Jan 1973
Mark Essexs mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orleans Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people including five policeman.
07 Jan 1995
Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory following the Indiana Pacers 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
07 Jan 1999
NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association
07 Jan 2019
Attempted coup in Gabon fails after rebel soldiers overtake national radio station in Libreville
07 Jan 2019
Rain ruins last 2 days of 4th cricket Test in Sydney as India wins series 2-1 become first Asian side to win a Test series in Australia 71 years after the first Indian touring team in 1947-48
07 Jan 1958
Gibson issued US patent for the Flying V Guitar
07 Jan 2019
Tennessee woman Cyntoia Brown convicted for murdering a man aged 16 granted clemency by Governor Bill Haslam
07 Jan 2019
College Football National Championship Levis Stadium Santa Clara 2 Clemson beats 1 Alabama 44-16
07 Jan 2019
Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the worlds most valuable listed company for the first time worth 797 billion
07 Jan 1558
Calais last English possession in France retaken by France
07 Jan 1584
Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and The Holy Roman Empire
07 Jan 1654
Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp Netherlands 1 person dies
07 Jan 1797
First official use of the modern Italian flag (the Tricolor) by the Cispadane Republic
07 Jan 1822
1st printing in Hawaii of a ceremonial broadside for King Kamehameha II by Elisha Loomis
07 Jan 1822
Liberia colonized by the American Colonization Society
07 Jan 1893
Hermann Sudermanns play Heimat premieres in Berlin
07 Jan 1913
William M. Burton patents a process to crack petroleum
07 Jan 1929
French inventor Robert Bureau launches the 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver
07 Jan 1956
Indian batsman Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ 413 opening stand with Roy
07 Jan 1980
Minnesota ends Philadelphia Flyers NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
07 Jan 1982
TV series Fame based on the film of the same name starring Debbie Allen and an ensemble cast premieres on NBC TV
07 Jan 1985
KHQ-AM in Spokane Washington changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
07 Jan 1989
NBAs Cleveland Cavaliers then longest winning streak (11 games)
07 Jan 1989
Cleveland Cavs block 21 NY Knicks shots tying NBA regulation game record
07 Jan 2020
6.4 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Rico islands largest in a century followed by many aftershocks kill 1 person and destroy 800 homes
07 Jan 1934
Flash Gordon comic strip created and drawn by Alex Raymond debuts
07 Jan 1962
1st AFL All Star Game Balboa Stadium San Diego California Western Division beats Eastern Division 47-27 MVP Cotton Davidson Dallas Texans QB
07 Jan 1962
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock [1]
07 Jan 1972
Discovery of the first black hole Cygnus X-1 in the constellation Cygnus reported in a paper in Nature by Louise Webster and Paul Murdin [1]
07 Jan 1989
Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 NY Knicks shots tying NBA regulation game record
07 Jan 1996
Fool Moon starring Bill Irwin closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 81 performances
07 Jan 1933
Revival of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissles musical Shuffle Along closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 17 performances
07 Jan 1942
WWII siege of Bataan in the Philippines starts (Americans and Filippino forces surrender in April)
07 Jan 1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held at IBMs head office in New York
07 Jan 1967
Murray Schisgals stage comedy Luv directed by Mike Nichols and starring Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach closes at the Helen Hayes Theatre NYC after 901 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
07 Jan 1822
Free American Blacks establish a settlement on Providence Island off the coast of West Africa later becomes the city of Monrovia Liberia
07 Jan 1930
French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr) the last naturally occurring element to be found
07 Jan 1939
US labor union leader Thomas Mooney freed from prison and later pardoned based on perjured testimony he had been jailed since 1916 on charges related to an anarchist bombing in San Francisco
07 Jan 1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment the first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held at IBMs headquarters in New York
07 Jan 1969
Dance Theatre of Harlem ballet school opens in a church basement
07 Jan 1972
LA Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks 134-90 for their 33rd straight win the longest winning streak in major professional sports
07 Jan 1980
Minnesota North Stars end Philadelphia Flyers NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak with a 7-1 win at the Met Center in Bloomington Minnesota
07 Jan 2018
Snow falls in the Sahara Desert with 15 inches reported in An Sfra northwestern Algeria
07 Jan 2018
Sydney Australia has its hottest day for 80 years as Penrith reaches 47.3C degrees
07 Jan 2021
Arizona called the COVID-19 hotspot of the world by local health officials as state suffers an average of 118.3 new cases per 100000 people
07 Jan 2021
WHO warns Europe needs to do more to flatten the steep vertical line of COVID-19 cases and control the spread of the new variant with 230 million already living under lockdown
07 Jan 2022
First successful transplant of a pigs heart into a human when genetically modified pigs heart inserted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore Maryland [1]
07 Jan 2022
Three men convicted of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Feb 2020 sentenced to life in prison in a Georgia court
07 Jan 2023
Vaccine for bees against American Foulbrood bacteria approved in the US - first vaccine in the US for any insect [1]
07 Jan 2024
Bangladeshs Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins her fourth term in office amid controversial election marred by opposition boycotts with over 10000 activists arrested [1]
07 Jan 1782
First US commercial bank Bank of North America opens in Philadelphia
07 Jan 1903
Vincent dIndys opera Letranger premieres in Brussels
07 Jan 1907
Clyde Fitchs play The Truth premieres in NYC
07 Jan 1930
French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr) the last naturally occurring element discovered
07 Jan 1950
Hank Snows 1st appearance on Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast
07 Jan 1953
US President Harry Truman announces the United States development of the hydrogen bomb
07 Jan 1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment the first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held at IBM headquarters in New York City
07 Jan 1963
The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point and Brown is fired
07 Jan 1972
China conducts a nuclear test at Lop Nor China
07 Jan 1982
Islanders Bryan Trottiers 10th career hat trick
07 Jan 1998
Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille ONeal blocks 3 shots in a 114-102 win over Milwaukee to bring his career total to 1002
07 Jan 2007
Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins
07 Jan 2025
7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet near the holy city of Shigatse also causing damage in Nepal China and India killing about 126 people [1]
07 Jan 2025
Extreme Santa Ana winds cause wildfires across Los Angeles including the Palisades Eaton and Hurst fires causing tens of thousands to evacuate burning over 16000 structures and killing 29 people
07 Jan 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces moves to remove third party fact-checking from Facebook and Instagram [1]
07 Jan 2025
The body of former US President Jimmy Carter lies in state in the US Capitol