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Day in History: January 7  
IN THE PAST 

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January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining (359 in leap years). It is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

	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.
	1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
	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 American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
	1797 - The current flag of Italy is first used.
	1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
	1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
	1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
	1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
	1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
	1924 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.
	1927 - First transatlantic 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.
	1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
	1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
	1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, 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.
	1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
	1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
	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 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan during World War II, dies.
	1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
	1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.

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