|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 7 is the seventh day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
358 days remain until the end of the year (359 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of
Portugal.[1] ·
1558 – French troops,
led by Francis, Duke of
Guise, take Calais, the last
continental possession of England.[2] ·
1608 – Fire
destroys Jamestown, Virginia.[3] ·
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.[4] ·
1738 – A peace treaty
is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.[5] ·
1782 – The first
American commercial bank, the Bank of North
America, opens.[6] ·
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre
Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.[7] ·
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor
off the Chonos Archipelago.[8] ·
1894 – Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film
of someone sneezing.[9] On the same day, his
employee, William Kennedy
Dickson, receives a patent for motion
picture film.[10] ·
1904 – The distress signal "CQD"
is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".[11] ·
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against
the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.[12] ·
1920 – The New York State
Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.[13] ·
1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies
the Anglo-Irish Treaty by
a 64–57 vote. ·
1927 – The first
transatlantic telephone service
is established from New York City to London.[14] ·
1928 – A
disastrous flood of the River
Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of
riverside London.[15] ·
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.[16] ·
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian
Agreement.[17] ·
1940 – Winter War: Battle of Raate Road -
The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet
forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.[18] ·
1948 – Kentucky Air
National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a
supposed UFO.[19] ·
1954 – Georgetown-IBM
experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system
is held in New York at the head office of IBM.[20] ·
1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first
person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.[21] ·
1959 – The United
States recognizes the new Cuban government
of Fidel Castro.[22] ·
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the
Surveyor series, lifts off from launch
complex 36A, Cape
Canaveral.[23] ·
1973 – In his second
shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people
and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel
in New Orleans, Louisiana,
before being shot to death by police officers.[24] ·
1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese
War: Phnom Penh falls
to the advancing Vietnamese troops,
driving out Pol Pot and
the Khmer Rouge.[25] ·
1980 – U.S.
President Jimmy Carter authorizes
legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.[26] ·
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of
the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).[27] ·
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.[28] ·
1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier,
attempts a coup d'état, which
ends in his arrest.[29] ·
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is
inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as
President.[30] ·
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian
Army executes a surprise attack at
the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.[31] ·
1999 – The Senate
trial in the impeachment of
U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.[32] ·
2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New
Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.[33] ·
2015 – Two gunmen
commit mass murder at
the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution
style, and wounding eleven others.[34] ·
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.[35] ·
2020 – The 6.4Mw 2019–20
Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in
southern Puerto Rico.[36] Births
·
889 – Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 943)[citation
needed] ·
1355 – Thomas
of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High
Constable of England (d. 1397)[37] ·
1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d.
1585)[38] ·
1634 – Adam Krieger, German organist and composer
(d. 1666)[39] ·
1647 – William
Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)[citation
needed] ·
1685 – Jonas Alströmer,
Swedish agronomist and businessman (d. 1761)[40] ·
1706 – Johann Heinrich
Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)[41] ·
1713 – Giovanni
Battista Locatelli, Italian director and manager (d. 1785)[42] ·
1718 – Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)[43] ·
1746 – George
Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician
(d. 1823)[44] ·
1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (d. 1844)[45] ·
1797 – Mariano
Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (d. 1849)[46] ·
1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician,
13th President
of the United States (d. 1874)[47] ·
1814 – Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (d.1837)[48] ·
1815 – Elizabeth
Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (d.1882)[49] ·
1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian
engineer, created Universal
Standard Time (d. 1915) ·
1830 – Albert Bierstadt, American painter (d. 1902)[50] ·
1831 – Heinrich von Stephan,
German postman, founded the Universal Postal
Union (d. 1897)[51] ·
1832 – James
Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d.
1908)[52] ·
1834 – Johann Philipp Reis,
German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)[53] ·
1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay,
English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d.
1899)[54] ·
1844 – Bernadette Soubirous,
French nun and saint (d. 1879)[55] ·
1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,
Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)[56] ·
1863 – Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and
first librarian of the New York
Botanical Garden (d. 1955)[57][58] ·
1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and
politician (d. 1956)[59] ·
1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist
(d. 1914)[60] ·
1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film
producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d.
1976)[61] ·
1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)[62] ·
1876 – William Hurlstone,
English pianist and composer (d. 1906)[63] ·
1877 – William
Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (d.
1928)[64] ·
1889 – Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina
(d. 1982)[65] ·
1891 – Zora Neale Hurston,
American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (d. 1960)[66] ·
1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and
businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d.
1974)[67] ·
1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English
singer-songwriter (disputed;[68] d. 1941) ·
1899 – Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer
(d. 1963)[69] ·
1900 – John Brownlee,
Australian actor and singer (d. 1969)[70] ·
1906 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)[71] ·
1910 – Orval Faubus, American soldier and
politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d.
1994)[72] ·
1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist,
created The Addams Family (d.
1988)[73] ·
1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster (d. 1993) ·
1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham,
Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)[74] ·
1916 – Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1988)[75] ·
1920 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d.
1992)[76] ·
1921 – Esmeralda
Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (d. 1997)[77] ·
1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet and
translator (d. 1975)[78] ·
1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2014) ·
1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal,
French flute player (d. 2000)[79] ·
1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d.
2003)[80] ·
1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper,
conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife
Park (d. 1995)[81] ·
1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and
politician, 11th Prime
Minister of South Korea (d. 2018) ·
1928 – William Peter Blatty,
American author and screenwriter (d. 2017)[82] ·
1929 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and
sculptor (d. 2012)[83] ·
1929 – Terry Moore,
American actress[84] ·
1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)[85] ·
1933 – Elliott Kastner, American-English film
producer (d. 2010)[86] ·
1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 29th Canadian
Minister of Labour (d. 2002)[87] ·
1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos,
Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d.
2008)[88] ·
1935 – Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and
international jurist (d. 2017)[89] ·
1935 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and
saxophonist (d. 2006)[90] ·
1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and
astronaut (d. 2014)[91] ·
1941 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor
(d. 2004)[92] ·
1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate[93] ·
1942 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German
weightlifter and coach (d. 2011)[94] ·
1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of
the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand
origami cranes (d. 1955)[95] ·
1944 – Mike McGear, British performing artist and
rock photographer[96] ·
1944 – Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and
academic (d. 2020)[97] ·
1945 – Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and
politician, 2nd Prime Minister of
Kenya[98] ·
1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher,
co-founded Rolling Stone[99] ·
1947 – Tony Elliott,
English publisher, founded Time Out[100] ·
1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter[101] ·
1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter[citation
needed] ·
1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (d.
2016)[102] ·
1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director,
producer, and martial artist[103] ·
1953 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor[104] ·
1954 – Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach[105] ·
1955 – Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress[106] ·
1956 – David Caruso, American actor[107] ·
1957 – Katie Couric, American television
journalist, anchor, and author[108] ·
1959 – Angela
Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and
politician[109] ·
1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and
songwriter[110] ·
1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician[111] ·
1961 – John Thune, American lawyer and politician[112] ·
1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst
and strategist known for his fascist views [113] ·
1962 – Ron Rivera, American football player and
coach[114] ·
1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor[115] ·
1965 – Alessandro
Lambruschini, Italian runner[116] ·
1967 – Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[117] ·
1969 – Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager[118] ·
1970 – Andy Burnham, English politician[119] ·
1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor[120] ·
1972 – Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice
hockey player and mixed martial artist[121] ·
1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and
politician[122] ·
1976 – Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer[123] ·
1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player[124] ·
1977 – Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright[citation
needed] ·
1979 – Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer,
songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist.[125] ·
1982 – Francisco
Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player[126] ·
1982 – Hannah Stockbauer,
German swimmer[127] ·
1983 – Edwin Encarnación,
Dominican baseball player[128] ·
1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver[129] ·
1986 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger[130] ·
1987 – Stefan Babović,
Serbian footballer[131] ·
1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress[132] ·
1987 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018)[133] ·
1990 – Gregor
Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper[134] ·
1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer[135] ·
1991 – Caster Semenya, South African sprinter[136] Deaths
·
312 – Lucian of Antioch,
Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (b. 240)[137] ·
838 – Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of
the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate[138] ·
856 – Aldric,
bishop of Le Mans ·
1131 – Canute Lavard, Danish prince and saint (b.
1096)[139] ·
1285 – Charles I of Naples (b.
1226)[140] ·
1325 – Denis of Portugal (b.
1261)[141] ·
1355 – Inęs de Castro,
Castilian noblewoman (b. 1325)[142] ·
1400 – John
Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (b. 1350)[143] ·
1451 – Amadeus VIII of
Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)[144] ·
1529 – Peter Vischer the
Elder, German sculptor (b. 1455)[145] ·
1536 – Catherine of Aragon (b.
1485)[146] ·
1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish monk and author (b.
1506)[147] ·
1619 – Nicholas Hilliard,
English painter and goldsmith (b. 1547)[148] ·
1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli,
Italian composer and author (b. 1560)[149] ·
1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)[150] ·
1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and
politician, 1st Governor
of the New Haven Colony (b. 1590)[151] ·
1694 – Charles
Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (b. 1618)[152] ·
1700 – Raffaello Fabretti,
Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)[153] ·
1715 – François Fénelon,
French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)[154] ·
1758 – Allan Ramsay,
Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1686)[155] ·
1767 – Thomas Clap, American minister and academic
(b. 1703)[156] ·
1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin,
Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1695)[157] ·
1812 – Joseph Dennie, American journalist and
author (b. 1768)[158] ·
1830 – John Thomas Campbell,
Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)[159] ·
1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter and
educator (b. 1769)[160] ·
1858 – Mustafa
Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier
of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)[161] ·
1864 – Caleb Blood Smith,
American journalist and politician, 6th U.S.
Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)[162] ·
1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)[163] ·
1893 – Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and
mathematician (b. 1835)[164] ·
1919 – Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Washington
University in St. Louis (b. 1843)[165] ·
1920 – Edmund Barton, Australian judge and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1849)[166] ·
1927 – Nikolaos
Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1851) ·
1931 – Edward Channing, American historian and
author (b. 1856) ·
1932 – André Maginot, French sergeant and
politician (b. 1877)[167] ·
1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer
(b. 1858)[168] ·
1941 – Charles Finger, English journalist and
author (b. 1869)[169] ·
1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and
engineer (b. 1856)[170] ·
1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and
author (b. 1886)[171] ·
1960 – Dorothea
Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b.
1878)[172] ·
1963 – Arthur Edward Moore,
New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of
Queensland (b. 1876)[173] ·
1964 – Reg Parnell, English racing driver and
manager (b. 1911)[174] ·
1967 – David Goodis, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1917)[175] ·
1967 – Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b.
1880)[176] ·
1968 – J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and
academic (b. 1897)[177] ·
1972 – John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b.
1914)[178] ·
1981 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio
announcer(b. 1908)[179] ·
1981 – Eric
Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian
Minister for Finance (b. 1926) ·
1984 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1902)[180] ·
1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter,
and photographer (b. 1917)[181]) ·
1988 – Zara Cisco Brough,
American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion
designer (b.1919)[182] ·
1988 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)[183] ·
1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)[184] ·
1990 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football
player and wrestler (b. 1908)[185] ·
1992 – Richard Hunt,
American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)[186] ·
1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist,
historian, and theorist (b. 1926)[187] ·
1996 – Károly Grósz,
Hungarian politician, 51st Prime
Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)[188] ·
1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b.
1915)[189] ·
1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1906)[190] ·
2000 – Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)[191] ·
2001 – James Carr,
American singer (b. 1942)[192] ·
2002 – Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor
(b. 1935)[193] ·
2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)[194] ·
2005 – Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)[195] ·
2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer,
geographer, and author (b. 1912)[196] ·
2007 – Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and
businessman (b. 1957)[197] ·
2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist,
author, and academic (b. 1929)[198] ·
2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African academic and
politician, Vice
State President of South Africa (b. 1917)[199] ·
2012 – Tony Blankley, British-born American child
actor, journalist and pundit (b. 1948)[200] ·
2014 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman
and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b.
1907)[201] ·
2015 – Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and
politician, Vice-President
of Botswana (b. 1936)[202] ·
2015 – Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1930)[203] ·
2015 – Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist
(b. 1934)[204] ·
2016 – Bill
Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)[205] ·
2016 – John Johnson,
American basketball player (b. 1947)[206] ·
2016 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)[207] ·
2016 – Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b.
1938)[208] ·
2016 – Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian
Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936) ·
2017 – Mário Soares, Portuguese politician;
16th President of
Portugal (b. 1924)[209] ·
2018 – Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy
Prime Minister (b. 1938)[210] ·
2018 – France Gall, French singer (b. 1947)[211] Holidays and observances
·
Christian Feast Day: o André Bessette (Canada) o Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar) o January
7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Christmas (Eastern
Orthodox Churches and Oriental
Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar, Rastafari) o Remembrance
Day of the Dead (Armenia) ·
Distaff Day (medieval Europe) ·
Earliest day on which Plough Monday can fall, while January
13 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after Epiphany (Europe). ·
Pioneer's Day (Liberia) ·
Tricolour day or Festa del
Tricolore (Italy) ·
Victory from
Genocide Day (Cambodia) |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|