Today in History
7 January
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| 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal | ||
| 1528 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV was born | ||
| 1539 Sebasti n de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1653 Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia) was born | ||
| 1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies | ||
| 1685 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries) | ||
| 1789 The first national presidental election in the U.S. was held. | ||
| 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans | ||
| 1830 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore) | ||
| 1830 Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes) was born | ||
| 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago | ||
| 1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris | ||
| 1845 Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18) | ||
| 1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont | ||
| 1883 Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II) was born | ||
| 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG) | ||
| 1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns | ||
| 1895 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist was born | ||
| 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook | ||
| 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal | ||
| 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF | ||
| 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam | ||
| 1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun | ||
| 1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London | ||
| 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies | ||
| 1933 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands | ||
| 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia) | ||
| 1953 Pres Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb | ||
| 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000 | ||
| 1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban governament | ||
| 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps | ||
| 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails | ||
| 1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing | ||
| 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die | ||
| 1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague | ||
| 1978 Angola revises its constitution | ||
| 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge | ||
| 1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1989 Japanese Emperor Hirohito died. | ||
| 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan | ||
| 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far | ||
| 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5 | ||
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