07 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 07 is the day number 7 in a given year. January 07 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1297	Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the ruler of Monaco.
1558	Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
1610	Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observationof the four Galilean moons through his telescope-Ganymede, Callisto, Ioand Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two untilthe following day.
1714	Typewriter made by Henry Mill of England.
1761	The Afghan ruler Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat.
1782	First American Commercial Bank Bank of North America) opened.
1785	Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries Became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon.
1789	The American public voted for George Washington to be elected the country's first president.
1789	The United States presidential election, 1788–89, and the House of Representatives elections were held.
1793	Ebell riots began in Sweden.
1797	The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
1890	William B. Parvis received a patent for the invention of the fountain pen.
1927	The first trans-Atlantic commercial telephone service started from New York to London.
1929	Mother Teresa resumed work among the poor and diseased by reaching Calcutta (now Kolkata).
1937	Princess Juliana of the Netherlands married Prince Bernhard of Lippe Bysterford in The Hague.
1940	Winter War-The Finnish 9th Division stopped and completely destroyed the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Rate-Suomussalmi road.
1943	The famous American Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, the father of Wi-Fi, died.
1948	Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell fatally crashed hisP-51 Mustang while in pursuit of a UFO near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
1950	41 patients died in a fire at Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa City.
1953	US President Harry Truman announced the creation of the hydrogen bomb.
1967	Irfan Khan, who revived the characters of Hindi cinema, was born.
1972	A plane crash in Spain's Ibiza region killed 108 passengers, including six crew.
1979	The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1980	Three years after the Emergency, Indira Gandhi returned to power with an overwhelming majority.
1985	CellNet launches 2 UK cellular networks.
1986	US President Ronald Reagan announced an economic embargo against Libya.
1989	Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan, took the throne upon the death of his father Hirohito, who became known by the posthumous name Emperor Showa.
1990	For the first time in the last 800 years, Pisa's bowing tower was closed to the audience.
1993	The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as its president.
1994	South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney test match by 5 runs.
1999	Newt Gingrich was narrowly re-elected as the speaker of the house.
2007	Newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw Stanislaw Wielgus Resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with the Polish communist government secret police.
2009	The prime minister of Russia Vladimir Putin endorses Russia's decision to turn off the gas suppliers to Europe through Ukraine.
2010	Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas Mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
2011	The International association football tournament the AFC Asian Cup, Officially opens in Qatar.
2011	In Tunisia, the youth protested for several days over political grievances and social problems which include the job market and purchase power.
2012	In New Zealand eleven people are killed when their hot air balloon collides with a power line and was crashed near Carterton.
2012	The dispute due to the fund issue leads to the closure of several Bosnia's cultural institutions.
2013	Barack Obama nominated US Republican Chuck Hagel to be the country's next Secretary of Defense. And John O. Brennan is nominated to the next CIA Director.
2014	Sheikh Hasina won the general election in Bangladesh.
2015	In Paris, two gunmen attacked the office of 'Charlie Abdo' magazine, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others.

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