A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on January 7 throughout history.
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There are 97 known moons of the planet Jupiter. This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer…
Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
New Fourth Army Incident: Chinese Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-shek fire on the surrounded Communist New Fourth Army at Maolin, Anhui Province, killing or capturing about 7,000 troops
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM headquarters in New York City
President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
William Kennedy Dickson captures "Fred Ott's Sneeze" as a motion picture at Thomas Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey [1]
Marian Anderson is the first African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera, singing the role of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera"
Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band the Pretenders, released in January 1980. A combination of rock and roll, punk and new wave music, it was an immediate success.
LA Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks 134-90 for their 33rd straight win, the longest winning streak in major professional sports
Duke Philip the Good (33) formally celebrate marriage Isabella of Portugal (32) in Sluys, Burgundy
Italian composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
William III (Dutch: Willem III, French: Guillaume III; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890, and was also...
English "Roxy Music" singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry [68] divorces second wife English public relations specialist Amanda Sheppard [32] after a year and a half of marriage
Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
Afonso IV (Afonso Dinis; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357), called the Brave (Portuguese: o Bravo), was King of Portugal from 1325 until his death in 1357.
Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by France
Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and The Holy Roman Empire
Boris Feodorovich Godunov was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.
This is a timeline of events related to the establishment of Jamestown, which today is located the U.S. state of Virginia.
Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 person dies
The Bank of North America was the first chartered bank in the United States, and served as the country's first de facto central bank.
1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
The national flag of Italy, often referred to as the Tricolour, is a flag featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by Article...
The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized National Bank in the United States, chartered under the Madison administration.
1st printing in Hawaii of a ceremonial broadside for King Kamehameha II by Elisha Loomis
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks BO, B&O) was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier.
HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine (US Civil War)
The Constitution of Arkansas is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of Arkansas delineating the duties, powers, structures, and functions of the state government.
African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
Hermann Sudermanns' play "Heimat" premieres in Berlin
The Boston Cooking School was founded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association of Boston "to offer instruction in cooking to those who wished to earn their livelihood as cooks, or who would make...
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American college football player and coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".
Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger" premieres in Brussels
Clyde Fitch's play "The Truth" premieres in NYC
England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
William M. Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel, but fail to prevent Serbia's annexation of Montenegro
Five duly elected Socialist assemblymen are denied by the New York State Assembly
In the United States, terrorism is defined as the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a climate of fear with the goal of intimidating a population or government and thereby...
Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
"Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in NYC
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
1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.
Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
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
Winter War: The Finish 9th Division defeats the Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road despite being significantly outnumbered
WWII siege of Bataan in the Philippines starts (Americans and Filippino forces surrender in April)
US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
Thomas Mantell, a pilot for the Kentucky Air National Guard, crashes while pursuing a supposed UFO
1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry" radio broadcast
Indian batsman Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
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
1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl): Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida
1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B.
Bahamas becomes self-governing
France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24, 1916 – April 28, 2002), known by the ring name Lou Thesz, was an American professional wrestler and wrestling coach.
"GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th...
The list of snowiest places in the United States by state shows average annual snowfall totals for the period from mid-1985 to mid-2015.
China conducts a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet. Every two years, the award recognizes a poet for best new volume of work or lifetime achievement.
Gasoline rationing begins in the Netherlands
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly...
Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
Minnesota North Stars end Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak with a 7-1 win at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, formally known as State of Brunei, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Sakigake (さきがけ; lit. 'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the US...
Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64
"Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, that lasted...
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory, following the Indiana Pacers' 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal blocks 3 shots in a 114-102 win over Milwaukee to bring his career total to 1,002
NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician.
The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen, lit. 'The Crime') is a Danish police procedural drama television series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR in co-production with ZDF Enterprises.
Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins
Muslim gunmen in Egypt kill nine people after opening fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians
On 7 January 2012, a scenic hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a high-voltage power line while attempting to land, causing it to catch fire, disintegrate and crash just...
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP is a Sunni Islamist militant organization which seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and establish the Islamic Emirate of Yemen.
Snow falls in the Sahara Desert, with 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, northwestern Algeria
Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
6.4 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Rico, island's largest in a century, followed by many aftershocks kill 1 person and destroy 800 homes
Arizona called the COVID-19 "hotspot of the world" by local health officials as state suffers an average of 118.3 new cases per 100,000 people
First successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human when genetically modified pig's heart inserted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland [1]
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins her fourth term in office amid controversial election marred by opposition boycotts with over 10,000 activists arrested [1]
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]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shoots Renee Good (37), an American citizen and mother of three, as she attempts to drive away from observing ICE actions in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gregory XIII is born
Millard Fillmore is born
Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman, known for australian aviator and businessman, was born on 1895-01-07.
Valery Kubasov, Russian soviet and russian cosmonaut, known for soviet and russian cosmonaut, was born on 1935-01-07.
Rand Paul, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1963-01-07.
William Peter Blatty, American writer and filmmaker, known for american writer and filmmaker, was born on 1928-01-07.
Nicolas Cage, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1964-01-07. Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.
Jeremy Renner, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-01-07. Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor.
Lauren Cohan, American british-american actress, known for british-american actress, was born on 1982-01-07.
Maurice McLoughlin is born
Lewis Hamilton, British athlete, known for british racing driver, was born on 1985-01-07. Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Ferrari.
Lamar Jackson athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1997-01-07. Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr.
Catherine of Aragon dies
Ignacy Łukasiewicz dies
Nikola Tesla, American serbian-american engineer and inventor, known for serbian-american engineer and inventor, died on 1943-01-07.
Hirohito dies
Mário Soares, Portuguese statesman, known for portuguese statesman, died on 2017-01-07.
Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player, known for canadian ice hockey player, died on 2026-01-07.
Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
Afonso IV (Afonso Dinis; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357), called the Brave (Portuguese: o Bravo), was King of Portugal from 1325 until his death in 1357.
Duke Philip the Good (33) formally celebrate marriage Isabella of Portugal (32) in Sluys, Burgundy
Gregory XIII is born
Catherine of Aragon dies
Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by France
Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and The Holy Roman Empire
Boris Feodorovich Godunov was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.
This is a timeline of events related to the establishment of Jamestown, which today is located the U.S. state of Virginia.
There are 97 known moons of the planet Jupiter. This number does not include a number of meter-sized moonlets thought to be shed from the inner moons, nor hundreds of possible kilometer-sized outer…
Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
Italian composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 person dies
Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
The Bank of North America was the first chartered bank in the United States, and served as the country's first de facto central bank.
1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
The national flag of Italy, often referred to as the Tricolour, is a flag featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by Article...
Millard Fillmore is born
The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized National Bank in the United States, chartered under the Madison administration.
1st printing in Hawaii of a ceremonial broadside for King Kamehameha II by Elisha Loomis
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks BO, B&O) was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier.
HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine (US Civil War)
The Constitution of Arkansas is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of Arkansas delineating the duties, powers, structures, and functions of the state government.
William III (Dutch: Willem III, French: Guillaume III; 19 February 1817 – 23 November 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890, and was also...
Ignacy Łukasiewicz dies
African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen
Maurice McLoughlin is born
Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
Hermann Sudermanns' play "Heimat" premieres in Berlin
William Kennedy Dickson captures "Fred Ott's Sneeze" as a motion picture at Thomas Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey [1]
Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman, known for australian aviator and businessman, was born on 1895-01-07.
The Boston Cooking School was founded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association of Boston "to offer instruction in cooking to those who wished to earn their livelihood as cooks, or who would make...
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American college football player and coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football".
Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger" premieres in Brussels
Clyde Fitch's play "The Truth" premieres in NYC
England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (ON), 3-1 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
William M. Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel, but fail to prevent Serbia's annexation of Montenegro
Five duly elected Socialist assemblymen are denied by the New York State Assembly
In the United States, terrorism is defined as the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a climate of fear with the goal of intimidating a population or government and thereby...
Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
William Peter Blatty, American writer and filmmaker, known for american writer and filmmaker, was born on 1928-01-07.
"Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in NYC
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
1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.
Valery Kubasov, Russian soviet and russian cosmonaut, known for soviet and russian cosmonaut, was born on 1935-01-07.
Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
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
Winter War: The Finish 9th Division defeats the Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road despite being significantly outnumbered
New Fourth Army Incident: Chinese Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-shek fire on the surrounded Communist New Fourth Army at Maolin, Anhui Province, killing or capturing about 7,000 troops
WWII siege of Bataan in the Philippines starts (Americans and Filippino forces surrender in April)
Nikola Tesla, American serbian-american engineer and inventor, known for serbian-american engineer and inventor, died on 1943-01-07.
US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
Australia v England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
Thomas Mantell, a pilot for the Kentucky Air National Guard, crashes while pursuing a supposed UFO
1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry" radio broadcast
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM headquarters in New York City
Marian Anderson is the first African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera, singing the role of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera"
Indian batsman Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
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
1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl): Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida
1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B.
Rand Paul, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1963-01-07.
Bahamas becomes self-governing
Nicolas Cage, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1964-01-07. Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.
France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24, 1916 – April 28, 2002), known by the ring name Lou Thesz, was an American professional wrestler and wrestling coach.
"GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th...
The list of snowiest places in the United States by state shows average annual snowfall totals for the period from mid-1985 to mid-2015.
Jeremy Renner, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1971-01-07. Jeremy Lee Renner is an American actor.
LA Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks 134-90 for their 33rd straight win, the longest winning streak in major professional sports
China conducts a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet. Every two years, the award recognizes a poet for best new volume of work or lifetime achievement.
Gasoline rationing begins in the Netherlands
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly...
Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band the Pretenders, released in January 1980. A combination of rock and roll, punk and new wave music, it was an immediate success.
Minnesota North Stars end Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak with a 7-1 win at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
Lauren Cohan, American british-american actress, known for british-american actress, was born on 1982-01-07.
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, formally known as State of Brunei, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Sakigake (さきがけ; lit. 'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the US...
Lewis Hamilton, British athlete, known for british racing driver, was born on 1985-01-07. Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for Ferrari.
Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
Hirohito dies
Lynn Jennings runs world record indoor 5km indoor at 15:22.64
"Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by Croatia, that lasted...
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
Larry Brown posts his 500th career NBA coaching victory, following the Indiana Pacers' 88-83 road win at the Houston Rockets
16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
Lamar Jackson athlete, known for american football player, was born on 1997-01-07. Lamar Demeatrice Jackson Jr.
Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal blocks 3 shots in a 114-102 win over Milwaukee to bring his career total to 1,002
President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician.
The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen, lit. 'The Crime') is a Danish police procedural drama television series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR in co-production with ZDF Enterprises.
Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins
Muslim gunmen in Egypt kill nine people after opening fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians
On 7 January 2012, a scenic hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a high-voltage power line while attempting to land, causing it to catch fire, disintegrate and crash just...
English "Roxy Music" singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry [68] divorces second wife English public relations specialist Amanda Sheppard [32] after a year and a half of marriage
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP is a Sunni Islamist militant organization which seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and establish the Islamic Emirate of Yemen.
Mário Soares, Portuguese statesman, known for portuguese statesman, died on 2017-01-07.
Snow falls in the Sahara Desert, with 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, northwestern Algeria
Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
6.4 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Rico, island's largest in a century, followed by many aftershocks kill 1 person and destroy 800 homes
Arizona called the COVID-19 "hotspot of the world" by local health officials as state suffers an average of 118.3 new cases per 100,000 people
First successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human when genetically modified pig's heart inserted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland [1]
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins her fourth term in office amid controversial election marred by opposition boycotts with over 10,000 activists arrested [1]
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]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shoots Renee Good (37), an American citizen and mother of three, as she attempts to drive away from observing ICE actions in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player, known for canadian ice hockey player, died on 2026-01-07.