January 7th Events |
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| January 7th, 1999 (January 07 1999) | Event | The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| January 7th, 1993 (January 07 1993) | Event | The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. | |
| January 7th, 1991 (January 07 1991) | Event | Beginning of the operation Desert Storm, during the Gulf War. | |
| January 7th, 1990 (January 07 1990) | Event | The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. | |
| January 7th, 1984 (January 07 1984) | Event | Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). | |
| January 7th, 1980 (January 07 1980) | Event | President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| January 7th, 1979 (January 07 1979) | Event | Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. | |
| January 7th, 1973 (January 07 1973) | Event | Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers. | |
| January 7th, 1972 (January 07 1972) | Event | Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board. | |
| January 7th, 1959 (January 07 1959) | Event | The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| January 7th, 1954 (January 07 1954) | Event | Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. | |
| January 7th, 1953 (January 07 1953) | Event | President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb. | |
| January 7th, 1950 (January 07 1950) | Event | A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people. | |
| January 7th, 1945 (January 07 1945) | Event | World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. | |
| January 7th, 1942 (January 07 1942) | Event | World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. | |
| January 7th, 1935 (January 07 1935) | Event | Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| January 7th, 1931 (January 07 1931) | Event | 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. | |
| January 7th, 1927 (January 07 1927) | Event | First transatlantic telephone callNew York City to London. | |
| January 7th, 1922 (January 07 1922) | Event | Dail Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. | |
| January 7th, 1904 (January 07 1904) | Event | The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". | |
| January 7th, 1894 (January 07 1894) | Event | W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. | |
| January 7th, 1835 (January 07 1835) | Event | The HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. | |
| January 7th, 1797 (January 07 1797) | Event | The modern Italian flag is first used. | |
| January 7th, 1785 (January 07 1785) | Event | Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. | |
| January 7th, 1782 (January 07 1782) | Event | The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. | |
| January 7th, 1610 (January 07 1610) | Event | 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. | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| January 7th, 1608 (January 07 1608) | Event | Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. | |
| January 7th, 1598 (January 07 1598) | Event | Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia. | |
| January 7th, 1558 (January 07 1558) | Event | France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. | |
| January 7th, 1325 (January 07 1325) | Event | Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. | |
