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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Galileo Galilei
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France. | {{refimprove}}, {{expand}} |
| 1598 – Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia. | unreferenced sections, neutrality issues |
| 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. | empty section, too many flags |
| 1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast. | stubby |
| 1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for women in the Philippines. | refimprove |
| 1991 - Fall of communism in Albania. | empty sections |
| 1996 – A major blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States, killing more than 100 people. | Tagged for cleanup |
Eligible
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon.
- 1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell fatally crashed his P-51 Mustang while in pursuit of a UFO near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
- 2007 – Newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw Stanisław Wielgus resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with the Polish communist government's secret police.
January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia; Flag Day in Italy
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour (pictured) was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1940 – Winter War: The outnumbered Finnish 9th Division decisively defeated Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1979 – The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- 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 midnight Christmas Mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.