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.
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January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar)
- 1598 – Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia.
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei first observed three of the eventual four Galilean moons through his telescope: Io, Europa, and Callisto.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by balloon.
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour (pictured) was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 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.
- 1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for the women in the Philippines.