January 7 in history
Events on January 7
Notable events that happened on January 7 in past years.
- 2025
A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.
Wikipedia article: January 2025 Southern California wildfires - 2015
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
Wikipedia article: Charlie Hebdo shooting - 1994
A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
Wikipedia article: British Aerospace Jetstream 41 - 1991
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
Wikipedia article: Roger Lafontant - 1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Wikipedia article: Brunei - 1973
In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.
Wikipedia article: Mark Essex - 1955
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
Wikipedia article: Marian Anderson - 1948
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
Wikipedia article: Kentucky Air National Guard - 1931
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.
Wikipedia article: Guy Menzies - 1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
Wikipedia article: New York State Assembly - 1894
Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
Wikipedia article: Thomas Edison - 1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
Wikipedia article: Jean-Pierre Blanchard - 1708
Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.
Wikipedia article: Tsardom of Russia - 1558
French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 49 BC
The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
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