It happened on this day, January 7
Events:
1325 – Alfonso IV ascends the throne of Portugal.
1608 – A fire breaks out in the town of Jamestown, Virginia, destroying it.
1610 – Galileo discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter and named them the Galilean moons.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, called the Bank of North America, is established.
1785 – The first flight between England and France is made in a hot air balloon.
1797 – The Italian Parliament adopts the tricolor green, white and red as the colors symbolizing the Italian national flag.
1789 – The first presidential elections are held at the national level in the United States.
1919 – Christmas uprising in Montenegro.
1927 – The first international telephone call was made from New York to London.
1929 – King Amanullah of Afghanistan imposes the hijab on women and bans Western clothing.
1953 – U.S. President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1959 – The United States officially recognizes the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
1960 – The United Arab Republic signs a contract with a Yugoslav company to build a new port in the city of Tartous at a cost of $3.2 million, to be completed in 5 years.
1962 – Indonesian President Ahmad Sukarno is the victim of a failed assassination attempt.
1975 – Meeting between Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Suleiman Franjieh in the Lebanese town of Chtaura, near the Syrian border. It was the first and last time Hafez al-Assad visited Lebanon.
1977 – The French counter-espionage service arrests Muhammad Daoud Odeh (Abu Daoud), a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, in Paris, then releases him despite an arrest warrant issued by Germany on suspicion of his involvement in the Munich operation.
1979 – Vietnamese forces invade Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, take control and expel Khmer Rouge forces and their president, Pol Pot.
1980 – Talks begin between Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Aswan to sign a separate peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
1984 – The city of Sidon is subject to an Israeli tank attack.
💥 Brunei joins the Organization of Southeast Asian Nations/ASEAN, becoming the sixth country to join the organization.
1989 – Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan after the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito.
💥 Sending a message from Ruhollah Khomeini to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, which carried a call to abandon communist doctrine and join Islam.
1990 – Italy closes the Tower of Pisa to visitors due to its high degree of tilt and fears it could fall.
2004 – The creation of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission in Morocco is announced.
2006 – A moderate earthquake hits the Alaska Peninsula measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale.
2015 – A suicide attack at the gate of the Police Academy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killing 32 people and injuring dozens.
💥 Armed attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, the French capital, leaving 12 dead and 10 injured.
2019 – A failed coup attempt in Gabon while President Ali Bongo was traveling for treatment in Morocco, and the officers involved were arrested hours after the attempt.
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Births:
1502 – Pope Gregory XIII, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1647 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg.
1800 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States.
1921 – Nazim Shaarawy, Egyptian actor.
1924 – Hamdi Ghaith, Egyptian actor.
1925 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist.
1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus.
1941 – John Walker, English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
(1945–Raila OdingaPrime Minister of Kenya
1955 – Muhammad Ibrahim, Lebanese actor and voice actor.
1960 – Samir Darwish, Egyptian poet and writer.
1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor.
1966 – Ihab Tawfiq, Egyptian singer.
1967 – Nick Clegg, British politician.
1969 – Maher Al-Muaiqly, Saudi Quran reciter.
1972 – Wael Ramadan, Syrian actor.
** Mona Galal, Egyptian actress.
1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian actress.
1989 – Emiliano Insua, Argentine footballer.
1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer.
1993 – Jan Oblak, Slovenian football goalkeeper.
1996 – Helly Shah, Indian actress.
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Death:
1536 – Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII of England.
1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter.
1655 – Innocent X, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter.
1892 – Khedive Tawfiq, sixth Egyptian ruler of the Alawite dynasty.
1941 – Abdulaziz bin Hamad Al-Mubarak, Maliki jurist, professor of religion and Saudi poet.
1951 – René Guénon, French writer and thinker.
1957 – Bashir Al-Saadawi, Libyan politician.
1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler and boxer.
1984 – Alfred Kaestler, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966.
1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan.
1994 – Alia Abdel Moneim, Egyptian actress.
1995 – Mary Rothbard, Austrian-American economist.
1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975.
** Rashid Al-Khader, Kuwaiti composer.
2001 – Charles Helou, fourth president of the Lebanese Republic.
2005 – Pierre Daninos, French writer.
2007 – Ihab Nafea, Egyptian actor.
2010 – Ibtisam Al-Hawari, Egyptian journalist.
2012 – Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian novelist.
2018 – Mishari Al-Arada, Kuwaiti singer.
2021 – George Bashir, Lebanese journalist, media personality and political writer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Christmas among Eastern Christian denominations.
⏪ Seven Herbs Festival in Japan.
