Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 7

This is a list of selected January 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Crown Prince Akihito in 1987
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  A 19th-century woman in the Philippines
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  The flag of the Cispadane Republic, the first use of the Italian tricolour
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  Europa
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  Callisto
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  Io
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  Francis, Duke of Guise

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1598 – Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia.	unreferenced section
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon.	refimprove section
1922 – Dáil Éireann narrowly approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence and established the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.	Treaty appears on December 6, War appears on July 11
1924 – The International Hockey Federation, the global governing body for field hockey, was founded in Paris in response to the sport's omission from the 1924 Summer Olympics.	date not cited
1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast.	stubby
1940 – Winter War: The outnumbered Finnish 9th Division decisively defeated Soviet forces on the Raate–Suomussalmi road.	refimprove section
1955 – Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.	refimprove section
1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for women in the Philippines.	refimprove
1996 – A major blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States, killing more than 100 people.	unreferenced sections
2007 – Newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw Stanisław Wielgus resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with the Polish communist government's secret police.	refimprove section
2015 – The offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were attacked by a branch of Al-Qaeda, leaving twelve people dead.	outdated

Eligible

• 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
• 1782 – The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the United States' first de facto central bank.
• 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
• 1989 – Representatives of Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
• 1989 – Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan, took the throne upon the death of his father Hirohito, who became known by the posthumous name Emperor Shōwa.
• 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as its president.
• 2010 – In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a Christmas Mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
• Born/died this day:

January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day over Genocide in Cambodia

Galileo Galilei

• 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) made his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
• 1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
• 1978 – An article titled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at to attack Ruhollah Khomeini, described as an Indian Sayyed.
• 1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
• 2012 – A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to catch fire, disintegrate and crash, killing all eleven people on board.

Johann Heinrich Zedler (b. 1706) · Joseph Dennie (d. 1812) · Helena Válková (b. 1951)

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