It happened on this day, January 7 – Zoll Net
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 – French counter-espionage services arrest a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Muhammad Daoud Odeh (Abu Daoud) in Paris, then release him despite an arrest warrant issued by Germany, suspected 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.
