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Events on the 7th of January in history

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07 Jan 0754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
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07 Jan 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal
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07 Jan 1325 Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
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07 Jan 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
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07 Jan 1558 France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
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07 Jan 1566 Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
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07 Jan 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
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07 Jan 1566 Pope Pius V is elected.
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07 Jan 1579 England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
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07 Jan 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire
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07 Jan 1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
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07 Jan 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
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07 Jan 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
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07 Jan 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede
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07 Jan 1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
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07 Jan 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
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07 Jan 1622 Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
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07 Jan 1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
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07 Jan 1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2 / 3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
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07 Jan 1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England
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07 Jan 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
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07 Jan 1761 Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
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07 Jan 1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
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07 Jan 1782 The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
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07 Jan 1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
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07 Jan 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
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07 Jan 1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
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07 Jan 1797 The modern Italian flag is first used.
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07 Jan 1817 2nd Bank of US opens
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07 Jan 1822 1st printing in Hawaii
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07 Jan 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
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07 Jan 1830 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
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07 Jan 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
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07 Jan 1835 HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
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07 Jan 1861 Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St. Augustine
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07 Jan 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, Virginia
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07 Jan 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, West Virginia
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07 Jan 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
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07 Jan 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
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07 Jan 1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
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07 Jan 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
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07 Jan 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen
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07 Jan 1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
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07 Jan 1893 Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat, " premieres in Berlin
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07 Jan 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
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07 Jan 1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
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07 Jan 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
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07 Jan 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
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07 Jan 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal
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07 Jan 1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
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07 Jan 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
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07 Jan 1910 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
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07 Jan 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
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07 Jan 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
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07 Jan 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
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07 Jan 1914 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
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07 Jan 1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
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07 Jan 1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
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07 Jan 1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
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07 Jan 1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
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07 Jan 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
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07 Jan 1925 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City
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07 Jan 1927 Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London
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07 Jan 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
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07 Jan 1927 The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
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07 Jan 1929 "Buck Rogers, " 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
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07 Jan 1929 "Tarzan, " one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
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07 Jan 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
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07 Jan 1931 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.
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07 Jan 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Michigan
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07 Jan 1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in the Netherlands
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07 Jan 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
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07 Jan 1934 Princess Juliana marries German Prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
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07 Jan 1935 Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
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07 Jan 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
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07 Jan 1940 Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
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07 Jan 1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts
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07 Jan 1942 World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
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07 Jan 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
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07 Jan 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
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07 Jan 1945 World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
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07 Jan 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
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07 Jan 1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
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07 Jan 1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
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07 Jan 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease and Baker
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07 Jan 1950 "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
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07 Jan 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
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07 Jan 1952 French Plevin government falls
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07 Jan 1953 President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
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07 Jan 1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
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07 Jan 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
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07 Jan 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Jan 1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
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07 Jan 1956 Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs. New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy
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07 Jan 1958 USSR shrinks army to 300,000
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07 Jan 1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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07 Jan 1960 The Polaris missile is test launched.
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07 Jan 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl) - Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
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07 Jan 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
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07 Jan 1962 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
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07 Jan 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, fails
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07 Jan 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
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07 Jan 1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing
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07 Jan 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
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07 Jan 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
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07 Jan 1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
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07 Jan 1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
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07 Jan 1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
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07 Jan 1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
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07 Jan 1968 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
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07 Jan 1968 Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
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07 Jan 1969 US Congress doubles President salary
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07 Jan 1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
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07 Jan 1970 The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
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07 Jan 1972 LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
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07 Jan 1972 Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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07 Jan 1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
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07 Jan 1973 "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
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07 Jan 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
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07 Jan 1973 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 vs. Pakistan Never again
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07 Jan 1973 US Poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
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07 Jan 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Jan 1973 Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
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07 Jan 1974 Dutch rations gasoline
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07 Jan 1975 "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
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07 Jan 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
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07 Jan 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
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07 Jan 1978 Angola revises its constitution
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07 Jan 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
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07 Jan 1979 Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
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07 Jan 1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
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07 Jan 1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
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07 Jan 1983 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs. England
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07 Jan 1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
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07 Jan 1984 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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07 Jan 1985 "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
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07 Jan 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
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07 Jan 1985 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
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07 Jan 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
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07 Jan 1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
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07 Jan 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
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07 Jan 1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
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07 Jan 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
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07 Jan 1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
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07 Jan 1989 Akhito becomes Emperor of Japan
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07 Jan 1989 Cleveland Cavs block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
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07 Jan 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
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07 Jan 1989 Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
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07 Jan 1990 Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
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07 Jan 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
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07 Jan 1990 The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
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07 Jan 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
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07 Jan 1991 Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
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07 Jan 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
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07 Jan 1993 Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
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07 Jan 1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
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07 Jan 1994 South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
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07 Jan 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
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07 Jan 1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
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07 Jan 1995 "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 performances
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07 Jan 1995 "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
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07 Jan 1996 "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 performances
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07 Jan 1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
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07 Jan 1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
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07 Jan 1999 The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
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07 Jan 2010 Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
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07 Jan 2012 A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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07 Jan 2015 A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
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07 Jan 2015 Two gunmen commit a mass shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and injuring another eleven.
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