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Events on January 7

• 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter, which were named after him.
• 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries become the first to cross the English Channel in a hydrogen-filled gas balloon from Dover to Calais. The journey takes them 2 hours 25 minutes, and they have to jettison all the ballast down to their underwear.
• 1857 Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major by Franz Liszt is premiered in Weimar.
• 1894 William K. L. Dickson is granted a patent in the USA for his invention of the motion picture camera.
• 1934 The comic strip series by artist Alex Raymond about the space hero Flash Gordon debuts in US newspapers.
• 1953 US President Harry S. Truman announces that the USA has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• 1958 After the Treaties of Rome enter into force, Walter Hallstein becomes president of the first Commission of the newly established European Economic Community (EEC).
• 1983 Bonn Turnaround: Three weeks after the failure of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's confidence vote, which had been agreed upon within the governing coalition, Federal President Carstens dissolves the German Bundestag and sets March 6 as the date for new elections.
• 1983 A US research team reports the discovery of the first black hole outside our galaxy to the Astrophysical Journal. The object is detected in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 163,000 light-years away.
• 1998 BR-alpha, the television educational channel of Bavarian Broadcasting, goes on air.
• 1999 Impeachment proceedings against US President Bill Clinton begin before the Senate of the United States. He is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the course of the Lewinsky affair.
• 2015 Attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Two terrorists storm the editorial offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people die. In the wake of the attack, two hostage situations occur, in which several civilians, another terrorist and the two attackers die.

Born on January 7

• 1871 Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician
• 1873 Charles Péguy, French writer
• 1890 Henny Porten, German actress
• 1901 Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, German politician
• 1940 Helga Schubert, German psychologist and author
• 1950 Erin Gray, American actress
• 1961 Roland Suso Richter, German director and producer
• 1970 Miroslav Stević, Serbian football player and official
• 1990 Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 2000 Aurelia Stern, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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