On this day in History - Jan. 07

1325 - King D. Dinis of Portugal dies (b. 1261) and Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

1355 - Inês de Castro (assassinada), amante do futuro rei Pedro I de Portugal.

1502 - Pope Gregory XIII was born (d. 1585).

1536 - Catherine of Aragon, dies [b. 1485]; first woman of Henrique VIII (England).

1537 - Died this day, Alessandro de' Medici of Florence, was assassinated.

1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco, was born, Spanish lexicographer.

1549 - Criação de um Governo Central no Brasil.

1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.

1566 - Pius V becomes Pope.

1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.

1601 - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth.

1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named the and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.

1612 - Paul de La Pierre, was born, composer.

1768 - Joseph Bonaparte,was born, King of Naples (d. 1844).

1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).

1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.

1789 - First nationwide United States election. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.

1789 - Primeiro Voto Popular no Brasil.

1797 - Consagración de la bandera tricolor italiana (verde, blanco y rojo) en el Congreso de Reggio, en la Emilia.

1800 - Millard Fillmore was born in Summerhill, N.Y.[d. 1874], 13th United States President., from 1850-1853.

1830- Morte da rainha viúva D. Carlota Joaquina, em Lisboa. Tinha casado com o infante D. João, futuro D. João VI em 1785.

1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, was born [d.1874], German physicist whose invention of an early telephone preceded Bell's work.

1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.

1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, ( St. Bernadette ) was born, French saint.

1870 - Sublevación en Haití contra el presidente Silverio Silvané, que fue fusilado por los rebeldes durante los disturbios.

1871 - Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, was born (d. 03 Feb 1956), mathematician, who (with René Baire and Henri Lebesgue), was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. He was also politician, statesmen, member of the French Resistance during World War II .

1873 - Adolph Zukor, was born, Hungarian producer (d. 1976).

1875 - Nace Manuel Aranaz Castellanos, escritor cubano.

1878 - Muere Anselmo Suárez Romero, escritor cubano.

1875 - Thomas Hicks, was born, American marathon runner (d. 1963).

1890 - Henny Porten, was born, actress (d. 1960) .

1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, was born, American author (d. 1960).

1893 - Jožef Stefan, dies, Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (b. 1835).

1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

1895 - Korea proclaimed its independence from China.

1896 - Arnold Ridley, was born, British playwright and actor (d. 1984) .

1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.

1899 - Francis Poulenc, was born, French composer (d. 1963).

1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."

1911- Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.

1912 - Charles Addams was born, cartoonist.

1922 - Dáli Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.

1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.

1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.

1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London.

1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.

1928 - El río Támesis se desborda a su paso por Londres, originando una de las mayores inundaciones de la capital británica.

1929 - Aparece "Tarzan", una de las primeras historietas de aventuras.

1934 - Aparece la historieta "Flash Gordon" (by Alex Raymond).

1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.

1941- World War II - North Africa : British troops capture Torbruk airport.

1941-John Ernest Walker was born; British chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for his pioneering work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of the "high-energy" compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

1943- World War II - North Africa : Oum-el-Araneb, the main Axis base in south Libya, is captured by General Philippe Leclerc's Free French troops.

1943 - Nikola Tesla, dies[b. 1856]; Serbian-American inventor and researcher who discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.

1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.

1954 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.

1956 - David Caruso, was born, American actor.

1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

1964 - Nicolas Cage, was born, American actor ( The Best of Times, The Rock, Con-Air, Face Off, Gone in 60 Seconds, Leaving Las Vegas, Vampire’s Kiss, Raising Arizona, Racing with the Moon, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Cotton Club, Birdy, Valley Girl...).

1965 - Aparece en Colombia la guerrilla procastrista Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN).

1975 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.

1977 - Se funda el Club de Deportes Cobreloa, de Calama, Chile.

1977 - Un grupo de intelectuais tchecos escrevem a chamada Carta dos 77, um documento que exige do Governo de Praga o respeito pelos direitos humanos e civis dos cidadãos.

1979 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are overthrown by Vietnamese troops.

1979 -Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.

1982 - El socialdemócrata Luis Alberto Monge gana las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.

1984 - Muere Alfred Kastler, investigador francés cuyos trabajos condujeron a la invención del Rayo Laser. Premio Nóbel de Física 1966.

1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

1986 - Muere Juan Rulfo, escritor mexicano, autor de "El llano en llamas" (1953) y "Pedro Páramo" (1955 ).

1989 -Japan's Emperor Hirohito dies and is succeeded by his son, Akihito.

1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.

1991 - Roger Lafontant, ex ministro del derrocado dictador haitiano Jean Claude Duvalier, fracasa en su golpe de estado contra el presidente electo, Jean B. Aristide.

1996 - El conservador Alvaro Arzú, del Partido Avanzada Nacional, es elegido nuevo presidente de Guatemala.

1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.

1997 - A team of programmers at the University of Regensburg, Germany releases Tibia, one of the earliest graphical MMORPGs.

1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.

2003 - Bosko Boskovic dies, Yougoslavian director/write/actor . Boskovic’s film "Nebeski Odred" was nominated for the Grand Prix Award at the 1961 Moscow film festival.

2003 - José Viana- Portuguese actor died in an automobile accident at age 80. Mr. Viana appeared in numerous films and TV series ( "Senhor Jerónimo", "Love Letters From a Portuguese Nun" ...).

2004 - Ingrid Thulin, actriz sueca, morreu neste dia.

2004 Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr. died this day [b. 1916]; American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar .