ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: JANUARY 7
FEATURED EVENT
Featured Biography
Born on This Day
1967
Nick Clegg
British politician
1964
Nicolas Cage
American actor
1957
Katie Couric
American broadcaster
1944
Omar al-Bashir
president of Sudan
MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY
Two gunmen connected to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemeni-based militant group, stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people in retribution for the satirical magazine's portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad; the attackers were later killed by police.
2015
By presidential decree, Christmas—this day on the Coptic Orthodox calendar—was celebrated for the first time as a national holiday in Egypt, an almost entirely Muslim country.
2003
John Kufuor was inaugurated as president of Ghana in that country's first peaceful transition from one elected government to another.
2001
Vietnamese forces took control of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ousting the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot.
1979
1968
American broadcast journalist Katie Couric, who was the first solo female anchor of a major network (CBS) evening news program, was born.
1957
American contralto Marian Anderson first performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1955
Zora Neale Hurston, an American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated black culture of the rural South, was born.
1891
St. Bernadette, the French girl whose visions of the Virgin Mary led to the founding of the shrine of Lourdes, was born in that town.
1844
Millard Fillmore, the 13th U.S. president, was born.
1800
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January 12002Euro introduced in Europe
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January 21492Granada reclaimed by Spain
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January 31521Martin Luther excommunicated by pope
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January 41948Burma granted independence
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January 51933Golden Gate Bridge construction begun
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January 6TodayEpiphany
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January 71610Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four moons
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January 81997Anniversary of Grimaldi rule in Monaco
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January 92005Election of Mahmoud Abbas
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January 101776Common Sense published
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January 111935Amelia Earhart's Hawaii-to-California flight
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January 122010Haiti severely damaged by earthquake
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January 131898Émile Zola's “J'accuse” published
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January 141900Premiere of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca
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January 151759British Museum opened to the public
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January 161991Beginning of Persian Gulf War
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January 171893Hawaiian monarchy overthrown
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January 181871German Empire established
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January 191966Rule in India transferred to Indira Gandhi
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January 202009Barack Obama sworn in as president
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January 211976First commercial Concorde flight
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January 221973Roe v. Wade ruling
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January 231997Madeleine Albright sworn in as U.S. secretary of state
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January 242004Opportunity's Mars landing
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January 2541 ceClaudius affirmed as Roman emperor
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January 261788First European settlement in Australia
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January 271973Vietnam War ended
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January 281986Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger
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January 292002Iraq, Iran, and North Korea called an “axis of evil”
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January 301649King Charles I of England executed
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January 311606Guy Fawkes executed in London