History Events on January 07

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.

#Dáil_Éireann

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 day.

#Galileo_Galilei

Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.

#Bosnian_War

Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

#Kentucky_Air_National_Guard

William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

#William_Kennedy_Dickson

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.

#Jean-Pierre_Blanchard

Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.

#Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

#Sino-Vietnamese_War

The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.

#Bank_of_North_America

A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

#Hot_air_balloon

French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

#Francis,_Duke_of_Guise

The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

#New_York_State_Assembly

Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin, Magnus I of Sweden.

#Canute_Lavard

Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

#Brunei

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.

#Guy_Menzies

A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.

#Baji_Rao_I

Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.

#Montenegro

The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.

#Telephone

The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

#Cuba

World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

#United_Kingdom

Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

#Jamestown,_Virginia

U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

#Jimmy_Carter

HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.

#HMS_Beagle

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

#Marian_Anderson

Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stop and completely destroy the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

#Winter_War

World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

#World_War_II

Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

#Afonso_IV_of_Portugal

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

#Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton

Pope Pius V is elected.

#Pope_Pius_V

A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.

#1928_Thames_flood

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

#Benito_Mussolini

A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.

Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

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.

Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.

Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.

Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".