Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 7

This is a list of selected January 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.

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  Crown Prince Akihito in 1987
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  A 19th-century woman in the Philippines
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  Akihito
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  Io
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  Europa
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  Callisto
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  Galileo Galilei
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  Flag of the Cispadane Republic, the first use of the Italian tricolour
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  Francis, Duke of Guise
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  Crossing of the English Channel by Blanchard and Jeffries
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  Jerry Rawlings
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  Bank of North America
• CQD in Morse code

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Christmas (Eastern Christianity; Julian calendar);	Orange "unreferenced section" banner
1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.	refimprove section
1598 – Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia.	refimprove
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard, accompanied by American John Jeffries, became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon.	Blanchard: lead too short
1922 – Dáil Éireann narrowly approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence and established the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.	Treaty appears on December 6, War appears on July 11
1924 – The International Hockey Federation, the global governing body for field hockey, was founded in Paris in response to the sport's omission from the 1924 Summer Olympics.	refimprove, date not cited
1940 – Winter War: Outnumbered Finnish troops decisively defeated Soviet forces at the Battle of Raate Road.	single source
1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for women in the Philippines.	refimprove
1989 – Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito, who became known by the posthumous name Emperor Shōwa.	refimprove section
1996 – A major blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States, killing more than 100 people.	unreferenced sections
2015 – The offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were attacked by a branch of Al-Qaeda, leaving twelve people dead.	outdated
Johann Heinrich Zedler |b|1706|	Too much uncited
Caster Semenya |b|1991|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1610 – Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night.
• 1782 – The Bank of North America (pictured) opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.
• 1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
• 1904 – The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators.
• 1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
• 1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
• 1955 – Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
• 1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
• 1989 – Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
• 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
• 2010 – In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.
• 2012 – A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.
• 2020 – After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

• Born/died this day: | Charles I of Anjou |d|1285| Joseph Dennie |d|1812| E. Louisa Mather |b|1815| Albert Bierstadt |b|1830| Eliezer Ben-Yehuda |b|1858| Anna Murray Vail |b|1863| Francis Poulenc |b|1899|Edmund Barton |d|1920| James Humphreys |b|1930| Li Shengjiao |b|1935| Raila Odinga |b|1945| Juan Gabriel |b|1950| Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers |d|1960| Nick Clegg |b|1967| Andy Burnham |b|1970|Melly Goeslaw |b|1974| Lewis Hamilton |b|1985| Zara Cisco Brough |d|1988| Richard Hamming |d|1998| Run Run Shaw |d|2014|Amanda Asay |d|2022

Notes

• Simon Marius appears on January 5, so Galilean moons should not appear in the same year

January 7: Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979); Tricolour Day in Italy (1797)

Guy Menzies

• 1327 – The Parliament of 1327, which was instrumental in the transfer of the English Crown from King Edward II to his son, Edward III, began at the Palace of Westminster.
• 1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight.
• 1978 – An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
• 1989 – In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.

• Nicholas Hilliard (d. 1619)
• Helena Válková (b. 1951)
• Johnny Owen (b. 1956)
• Eden Hazard (b. 1991)

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