Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 7

1325 : Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
1558 : Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1566 : Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1566 : Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 : England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
1584 : Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1598 : Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
1601 : Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 : Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 : Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 : Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1622 : Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1630 : Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1654 : Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
1698 : Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
1714 : Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 : Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1782 : 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1784 : 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 : 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1817 : 2nd Bank of US opens
1822 : 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 : Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 : 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1835 : HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
1842 : Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1861 : Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
1862 : Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1862 : Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1868 : Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 : Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1879 : Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
1888 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
1890 : W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1892 : Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help
1892 : rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1893 : Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
1894 : Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1896 : Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1899 : Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1903 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
1903 : Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1904 : Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
1907 : Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
1908 : England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
1910 : Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
1911 : 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
1911 : Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1913 : William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 : 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
1916 : German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1923 : Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1925 : Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1927 : Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
1927 : Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
1929 : "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 : "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1929 : 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
1930 : Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
1932 : 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1933 : 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1934 : "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1934 : Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
1935 : Z?e Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
1936 : Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1939 : US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1942 : WW II siege of Bataan starts
1944 : Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 : Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1946 : Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1948 : US president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1949 : 1st photo of genes taken at U of S Calif by Pease & Baker
1950 : "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
1950 : Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
1950 : Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1952 : French Plevin govt falls
1953 : Pres Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
1955 : Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
1955 : WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 : Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
1958 : USSR shrinks army to 300,000
1959 : US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban govt
1961 : Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
1962 : AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
1962 : Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
1962 : Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
1963 : 1st class postage raised from 4? to 5?
1964 : Bahamas becomes self-governing
1964 : Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
1965 : France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
1966 : Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
1966 : Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1967 : "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1968 : "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1968 : 1st class postage raised from 5? to 6?
1969 : US Congress doubles president salary
1970 : Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971 : -40?F (-40?C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1972 : Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
1972 : LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
1972 : Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1972 : William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1973 : "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
1973 : British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1973 : Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
1973 : US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
1973 : WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 : Dutch rations gasoline
1975 : "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
1975 : Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
1975 : Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC
1975 : Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
1977 : Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
1978 : Angola revises its constitution
1979 : Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
1982 : "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
1982 : Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
1983 : Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
1983 : Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1985 : "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1985 : Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1985 : KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
1985 : Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1986 : Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
1986 : Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
1986 : STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1986 : US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1987 : French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
1987 : Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
1989 : Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
1989 : Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
1989 : Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
1989 : NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
1990 : Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1991 : "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1992 : AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1992 : Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1994 : South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
1994 : United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1995 : "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1995 : "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
1996 : "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
1996 : "Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
1996 : 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1997 : Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House

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