January 2025 Southern California wildfires
2025
A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed..
January-7
Historical Events on January 7
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January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
2023
2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes
The 6.4Mw  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2020
Charlie Hebdo shooting
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
2015
January 2015 Sanaa bombing
A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2015
Hot air balloon
2012
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board..
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
1999
British Aerospace Jetstream 41
A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1994
History of Ghana
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993
Bosnian War
Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1993
Roger Lafontant
1991
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest..
Sutton United F.C.
Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.
1989
JAXA
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.
1985
Brunei
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1984
Jimmy Carter
U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1980
Sino-Vietnamese War
1979
Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge..
Mark Essex
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, before being shot to death by police officers.
1973
Iberia Flight 602
Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1972
Surveyor program
Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.
1968
Cuba
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1959
Marian Anderson
1955
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera..
Georgetown–IBM experiment
Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1954
1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash
In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1950
Kentucky Air National Guard
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1948
Winter War
Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1940
Benito Mussolini
1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement..
Guy Menzies
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.
1931
1928 Thames flood
A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1928
History of the telephone
The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1927
Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1922
New York State Assembly
1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen..
Montenegro
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1919
Distress signal
The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1904
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1894
Kingstree jail fire
The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.
1867
HMS Beagle
1835
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago..
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1785
Bank of North America
The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1782
Bajirao I
A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1738
Tsardom of Russia
Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.
1708
Siege of Yelabuga (1708)
1708
Bashkir rebels besiege Yelabuga..
Galileo Galilei
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 night.
1610
Jamestown, Virginia
Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1608
François, Duke of Guise
French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1558
Afonso IV of Portugal
Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1325
Constantinople
1078
The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor..
Senate of the Roman Republic
The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
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