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07 January, 1999
The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins.
07 January, 1996
The North American blizzard of 1996 pounds the east coast of the United States with 1-4 feet of snow.
07 January, 1993
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
07 January, 1990
The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
07 January, 1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
07 January, 1980
President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
07 January, 1979
Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
07 January, 1973
Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
07 January, 1972
Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
07 January, 1959
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
07 January, 1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
07 January, 1953
President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
07 January, 1950
A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
07 January, 1945
World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
07 January, 1942
World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
07 January, 1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
07 January, 1927
First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
07 January, 1927
The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
07 January, 1924
George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
07 January, 1924
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.
07 January, 1922
Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
07 January, 1904
The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
07 January, 1894
W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
07 January, 1835
The HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
07 January, 1797
The modern Italian flag is first used.
07 January, 1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
07 January, 1782
The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
07 January, 1735
Hieronimus de Salis marries Mary ffane at St. Margarets Westminster.
07 January, 1610
Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
07 January, 1608
Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
07 January, 1598
Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
07 January, 1558
France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
07 January, 1325
Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

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