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January 7 – A Day as Today – Ephemeris in Dorian’s Secrets.

There are 358 days left to finish the year and 359 in leap years!

January 7 is the seventh day of the year on the Gregorian calendar.

They succeeded because they did not know it was impossible.

Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889-1963).

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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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January 7 – A Day as Today – Events

1325: in Portugal, Alfonso IV becomes king.
1414: in Venice, Tommaso Mocenigo is elected 64th Doge.
1558: the French recover Calais, the last British possession on the continent.
1566: Pius V is elected pope.
1598: in Russia, Borís Godunov becomes tsar.
1608: in the United States, the city of Jamestown (Virginia) is destroyed by a fire.
1610: in Italy, Galileo Galilei observes four of Jupiter’s moons through his telescope.
1735: in Westminster, Hieronimus de Salis marries Maria Ffane.
1782: The first American bank, the Bank of North America, opens in the United States.
1785: in the Strait of Calais, the French balloonist Jean Pierre Blanchard and the American John Jeffries make the first hot air balloon crossing of the English Channel.
1789: in the United States the first presidential elections are held, which give George Washington as the winner.
1791: in France, the Constituent Assembly creates invention patents.
1797: in the Congress of Reggio (in Emilia) the Italian tricolor flag (green, white and red) is enshrined.
1822: Liberia is colonized by black Americans.
1825: in Chile the Parliament of Tapihue is held between Mapuche loncos and representatives of the republic.
1835: in Chile, the Beagle ship arrives at the Chonos archipelago.
1839 in Ireland, in the early morning “The Night of the Great Wind” occurs, a storm with winds of 185 km / h, which caused destruction of houses throughout the country and in Dublin, and many hundreds of deaths. It was Ireland’s most damaging storm in the last 300 years.
1839: The Treaty of London is signed.
1842: Gioachino Rossini’s work Stabat Mater opens in Paris.
1870: in Haiti, the people revolt against President Silverio Silvané, and shot him.
1894: W. K. Dickson receives a patent for his invention, the motion picture.
1899: the first issue of the magazine Vida Literaria appeared in Madrid, directed by Jacinto Benavente, and whose collaborators included Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Machado.
1904: the CQD distress signal is established (which will be replaced by SOS two years later).
1907: in Río Blanco (Mexico) the massacre of striking workers is committed.
1908: in Spain the Law of the Squadron is enacted, to provide the country with maritime forces, which it lacked after the disasters suffered in the wars in Cuba and the Philippines.
1910: the world chess championship begins in Vienna, between Emanuel Lasker (champion) and Carl Schlechter (challenger).
1919: in Buenos Aires the union situation of the Vasena workshops worsens; Tragic Week begins.
1922: the Treaty of London is approved, establishing the Free State of Ireland.
1924: the port warehouses are burned in London.
1924: in the United States, George Gershwin finishes composing Rhapsody in Blue.
1924: the International Joquei Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.
1927: The commercial telephone service between London and New York opens.
1927: The Harlem Globetrotters basketball group play their first game.
1928: the River Thames overflows as it passes through London, causing one of the biggest floods in the British capital.
1929: Tarzan, one of the first adventure comics, appears.
1934: Franco-Italian agreement to regulate border disputes in the African colonies. France cedes to Libya and part of French Somalia to Italy.
1934: In the United States, cartoonist Alex Raymond creates Flash Gordon for the King Features Syndicate.
1935: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian agreement.
1936: in Venezuela the exploitation of the Orinoco Oil Belt (FPO) begins.
1936: in Spain, the president of the Second Republic, Niceto Alcalá Zamora, decrees the dissolution of the Cortes and calls elections for February 16.
1940: in Spain, the priest Rafael Villoslada Peula founded the Professional Schools of the Holy Family.
1942: in the framework of World War II, the site of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1942: the Afrika Korps retreats in the direction of Tripoli.
1946: The victorious powers in World War II recognize the borders of Austria from 1937.
1946: in Buenos Aires, Radio del Estado carries out modulated frequency emission tests for several hours.
1950: Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, burns down. 41 people die.
1950 the composer and singer Chabuca Granda composed the famous waltz “La Flor de la Canela”.
1953: in the United States, President Harry Truman announces that his country has developed the hydrogen bomb.
1953: a right-wing coup fails in Bolivia.
1954: in New York, the IBM computer company shows the first translation machine.
1959: The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1960: Success in the first test of the American UGM-27 Polaris missile, with which the submarines will be equipped.
1965: the pro-Castro guerrilla ELN appears in Colombia.
1966 the stone city of Gran Pajatén is discovered, in the department of Amazonas, Peru.
1968: The United States launches Surveyor 7 towards the Moon.
1970: in Zaragoza, an 18-year-old young man, Mariano Ventura Rodríguez, carries out the first air hijacking in Spain.
1972: in Ibiza, an Iberia LAE Caravelle 6-R collides with Mount Sa Talaia de Sant Josep. All 104 people on board die.
1973: At the Howard Johnson hotel in New Orleans (Louisiana), a certain Mark Essex shoots and kills 10 people and wounds 13 others. Police shoot him to death.
1975: OPEC accepts a 10% oil hike.
1977: in Calama (Chile) the Cobreloa Sports Club is founded.
1977: in Czechoslovakia, a group of intellectuals released the so-called Charter of 77, a document in which the Prague government is required to respect the human and civil rights of citizens.
1979: in Cambodia, Vietnamese forces occupy the capital Phnom Penh, with the help of Cambodians opposed to the Pol Pot dictatorship.
1980: in India, Indira Gandhi’s party wins the parliamentary elections.
1980: In the United States, President Jimmy Carter authorizes a loan of 1.5 billion dollars for the Chrysler Corporation.
1981: Libya and Chad become a joint people’s republic.
1982: in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II condemns the Israeli annexation of the Golan territories.
1982: in the city of Aachen, the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, is awarded the first international Charlemagne prize to be awarded to a sovereign.
1982: in Costa Rica, the social democrat Luis Alberto Monge wins the presidential elections.
1984: Brunei becomes the sixth member of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
1985: The United States and Russia resume dialogue to begin negotiations on nuclear and space disarmament after four years of cold war.
1989: in Japan, Prince Akihito, 55, receives the symbols of the succession of his father, Hirohito, as the new Emperor.
1990: in Pisa (Italy) the famous Leaning Tower is closed to the public due to security problems.
1991: in Haiti, Roger Lafontant, former minister of the ousted dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, fails in his coup against the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1992: The AT&T company introduces the videophone.
1992: in Podrute (Croatia), an ALE helicopter on a monitoring mission for the European Community is shot down by a Yugoslav MiG-21.
1993: the fourth republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1995: in Grozny (Chechnya, Russia) the Russians bomb the city and set fire to the presidential palace.
1996: in Guatemala, the conservative Álvaro Arzú, from the National Advanced Party, is elected the new president.
1996: the orca Keiko is transferred from the Reino Aventura Park in Mexico City to the Oregon Coast Aquarium (in Oregon).
1996: in the United States, a storm covers the east coast with a meter of snow.
1997: in Algiers, the explosion of a car bomb causes 13 deaths.
1997: a group of programmers from the University of Regensburg (Germany) launches Tibia, one of the first MMORPG graphics programs.
1998: The United States launches the Lunar Prospector lunar probe.
1999: the trial against Bill Clinton begins in the United States, the first to be held against a president in 130 years.
2004: ESPN Deportes is created.
2007: a group of scientists (among them the Italian Paolo De Coppi) announced to have discovered stem cells in amniotic fluid.
2011: Chile recognizes the Palestinian State.
2012: Álvaro Pombo wins the Nadal award with his novel “El Tremor del Hero”.
2013: in Zurich (Switzerland), Lionel Messi wins his fourth Ballon d’Or over Cristiano Ronaldo and Andrés Iniesta, thus surpassing Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten and Michel Platini in the number of trophies.
2015: in France, attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
2020: in Wuhan, Covid19 is discovered.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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January 7 – A Day as Today – Births

891: Abderramán III, Caliph from Cordoba (d. 961).
1355: Thomas of Woodstock, English aristocrat, son of Edward III (d. 1397).
1502: Gregory XIII, Italian pope between 1572 and 1585 (d. 1585).
1528: Juana III, queen of Navarre (d. 1572).
1624: Guarino Guarini, Italian architect, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1683).
1706: Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751).
1720: José Bernardo de Gálvez y Gallardo, Spanish military and politician.
1722: Teodoro de Almeida, Portuguese priest and writer (d. 1804).
1745: Johan Christian Fabricius, Danish entomologist (d. 1808).
1768: José I of Spain, Pepe Botella, Spanish King (d. 1844).
1796: Charlotte Augusta of Wales, Welsh princess (d. 1817).
1797: Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga, Mexican politician (d. 1849).
1800: Millard Fillmore, 13th US President (d. 1874).
1822: Theodor Aufrecht, German Indologist (d. 1907).
1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer who invented Universal Standard Time (d. 1915).
1830: Albert Bierstadt, German painter (d. 1902).
1833: Saint Josep Manyanet y Vives, Spanish priest and educator (d. 1901).
1834: Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874).
1844: Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and Catholic saint (d. 1879).
1845: Louis III, Bavarian King between 1913 and 1918 (d. 1921).
1852: Faustino Nicoli, industrialist and politician from Barcelona (d. 1925).
1858: Eliezer Ben Yehuda, chiefly responsible for the resurrection of the Hebrew language (f. 1922).
1864: Julio Cejador, humanist and Spanish philologist.
1870: Enrique Chicote, Spanish actor.
1871: Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956).
1873: Adolph Zukor, American film producer (d. 1976).
1873: Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914).
1875: Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945).
1880: Santiago Luis Copello, Argentine bishop (d. 1967).
1882: Raimundo Martín, Spanish religious, bishop of Guatemala (d. 1975).
1891: Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960).
1895: Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist of Romanian origin (d. 1960).
1899: Francis Poulenc, French composer and pianist (d. 1963).
1905: Coert Steynberg, South African sculptor (b.1982).
1907: Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish musician (f. 1993).
1912: Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988).
1912: Günter Wand, German conductor and musician (f. 2002).
1913: Francisco Fernández del Riego, Spanish writer and politician (d. 2010).
1915: Chano Pozo, Cuban musician. (f. 1948).
1916: Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975).
1916: Elena Ceausescu, Romanian communist politician (d. 1989).
1919: Alessandro Natta, Italian politician (d. 2001).
1919: Julián Gallego Serrano, Spanish historian. (f. 2006).
1921: Esmeralda Arboleda, Colombian politician and lawyer (f. 1997).
1922: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, Mexican politician (f. 2002)
1922: Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000).
1922: Vincent Gardenia, Italian actor (d. 1992).
1922: Mario Almada, Mexican actor (d. 2016).
1925: Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and writer (d. 1995).
1925: Pierre Gripari, French writer (d. 1990).
1928: William Peter Blatty, American writer. (f. 2017).
1928: Ante Garmaz, couturier, actor, model and television presenter (d. 2011).
1934: Tassos Papadopoulos, Greek politician, president between 2003 and 2008 (d. 2008).
1938: Aída Bortnik, Argentine author and screenwriter (d. 2013).
1938: Roland Topor, French writer and cartoonist (d. 1997).
1940: Eugenio Zaffaroni, Argentine lawyer and notary public.
1941: John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1997.
1942: Vasili Alekséyev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011).
1943: Sadako Sasaki, victim of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955).
1945ː María Manuela Díaz Orjales (María Manuela), Spanish singer and painter.
1946: Jann Wenner, American publisher.
1948: Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter.
1949: Anne Schedeen, American actress.
1949: Steven Williams, American actor.
1950: Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2016).
1952: Valeria Lynch, Argentine singer and actress.
1954: Abilio Estévez, Cuban writer.
1954: Rita Irasema, artist, singer and presenter.
1956: David Caruso, American actor.
1956: Ignacio Walker, Chilean lawyer and politician.
1958: Massimo Biasion, Italian rally driver.
1962: Gustavo Béliz, Argentine politician.
1963: Carmen Machi, Spanish actress.
1963: Clint Mansell, British musician and composer.
1964: Nicolas Cage, American actor and producer.
1964: Mar Carrera, Spanish actress.
1967: Nick Clegg, British politician.
1969: Raimundo Tupper Lyon, Chilean soccer player (f. 1995).
1969: David Yost, American actor.
1970: Rogelio Frigerio, Argentine economist and politician.
1970: João Ricardo, Angolan soccer player.
1971: Jeremy Renner, American actor.
1971: J. D. Barker, American writer.
1972: Adrián Schinoff, Argentine keyboardist and composer.
1972: Pedro Contreras, Spanish footballer.
1973: Rafael Dudamel, Venezuelan soccer player.
1974: Julen Guerrero, Spanish soccer player, coach and journalist.
1976: Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player.
1976: Jean Paul Leroux, Venezuelan theater and film actor.
1977: David Alarza Palacios, Spanish judoka.
1977: Dustin Diamond, American actor.
1977: Marco Storari, Italian footballer.
1978: Janine Jansen, Dutch violinist.
1978: Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (f. 2005).
1978: Emilio Marcos Palma, Argentine citizen, first person born in Antarctica.
1979: Aloe Blacc, American singer, songwriter, rapper and musician.
1979: Bipasha Basu, Indian model.
1980: Daughter of Perra (Wally Pérez Peñaloza), transformista and Chilean actress (f. 2014).
1980: Mariángel Ruiz, Venezuelan model, actress and entertainer, winner of Miss Venezuela 2002.
1982: Lauren Cohan, American actress.
1984: Vítor Emanuel Cruz da Silva, Portuguese soccer player.
1984: Xavier Margairaz, Swiss footballer.
1985: Lewis Hamilton, British Formula 1 driver.
1987: Sirusho Harutyunyan, Armenian singer.
1988: Robert Sheehan, Irish actor.
1988: Lim Ju-eun, South Korean actress.
1990: Fernando Dente, Argentine actor, singer, dancer, conductor and theater director.
1991: Caster Semenya, South African athlete.
1991: Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer.
1992: Børns, American singer and songwriter.
1993: Jan Oblak, Slovenian footballer.
1995: Leslie Grace, American singer and songwriter.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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January 7 – A Day as Today – Deaths

856: Alderico de Le Mans, French bishop and saint (b. C. 800).
1285: Charles I, Neapolitan king (b. 1226).
1325: Dionysius I, Portuguese king (b. 1261).
1355: Inés de Castro, Spanish aristocrat (b.1325).
1451: Amadeo VIII, French aristocrat (b.1383).
1529: Peter Vischer, German sculptor (b.1455).
1536: Catherine of Aragon, Aragonese aristocrat, queen consort of England (b. 1485).
1619: Nicholas Hilliard, British painter (b. C. 1547).
1622: Virginia María De Leyva, Italian nun (b. 1565).
1655: Innocent X, Catholic Pope (b. 1574).
1683: Manuel Lobo (47), Portuguese governor and military man; imprisoned (b.1635).
1715: François Fénelon, French Catholic writer and theologian (b. 1651).
1758: Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b.1686).
1809: Benito de San Juan, Mexican general, victim of a mutiny by his own troops.
1830: Sir Thomas Lawrence, British portrait painter (born 1769).
1882: Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor (b.1822).
1904: Emmanuil Roídis, Greek journalist (b. 1836).
1918: Julius Wellhausen, German Protestant theologian (b. 1844).
1920: Edmund Barton, 1st Australian Prime Minister (b. 1849).
1932: André Maginot, French politician (b.1877).
1943: Nikola Tesla, American physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and inventor of Serbian origin (b. 1856).
1944: Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888).
1948: María de Maeztu, Spanish pedagogue (b. 1881).
1950: Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1886).
1951: René Guénon, Sufi and French-Egyptian philosopher (b. 1886).
1953: Osa Johnson, American adventurer, naturalist and photographer (b. 1894).
1957: Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect (b. 1872).
1967: Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b.1880).
1971: Gustavo Bacarisas, Gibraltarian painter (b. 1873).
1972: John Berryman, American poet (b.1914).
1972: Trini de Figueroa, Spanish writer (b.1918).
1973: Pedro Berruezo, Spanish footballer (b.1945).
1977: Erroll Garner, American jazz pianist (b.1921).
1980: Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter (b.1935).
1984: Alfred Kastler, French scientist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 (b.1902).
1986: Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917).
1988: Trevor Howard, British actor (b.1913).
1989: Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b.1901).
1990: Bronko Nagurski, American footballer (b.1908).
1992: Richard Hunt, American puppeteer, of The Muppets (b. 1951).
1992: Gilles Lalay, French motorcycle racer (b.1962).
1995: Murray Rothbard, American economist (b.1926).
1996: Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b.1911).
1998: Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1975 (b.1906).
2002: Jon Lee, British musician, of the band Feeder (b. 1968).
2003: Alejandro Rodríguez Medina, Mexican military (b. 1896).
2004: Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b.1926).
2005: Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b.1913).
2006: Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b.1912).
2007: Ursicino Martínez, Spanish sculptor (b. 1932).
2009: Ernesto de la Torre Villar, Mexican historian (b.1917).
2009: Pascal Terry, French motorcycle racer (b.1960).
2010: Blanca Sánchez, Mexican actress (b.1946).
2010: Bruria Kaufman, Israeli theoretical physicist (b.1918)
2011: Carlos Castro, LGBT activist, drag queen, social chronicler and Portuguese journalist assassinated (b.1945).
2011: José Félix Sáenz Lorenzo, mathematician, university professor and Spanish politician (b.1946)
2013: Larry Clapp, American politician (b.1946).
2013: Tom Ebbert (93), American trombonist, of the Dukes of Dixieland (b.1919).
2013: David R. Ellis, American filmmaker (b.1952).
2013: Huell Howser (67), American film and television actor (b.1945).
2013: Fred L. Turner, American executive, CEO of McDonald’s (b.1933).
2013: José Sánchez de la Rosa, Spanish journalist (b.1930).
2014: Run Run Shaw, Chinese businessman (b.1907).
2014: Roy Warhurst, British footballer (87).
2015: Bernard Maris, French writer and journalist (b.1946).
2015: Jean Cabut “Cabu”, French cartoonist (b. 1938).
2015: Stéphane Charbonnier “Charb”, French journalist and cartoonist (b. 1967).
2015: Georges Wolinski, French journalist and graphic humorist (b.1934).
2015: Bernard Verlhac “Tignous”, French cartoonist (b. 1957).
2015: Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (b.1941).
2015: Elsa Cayat, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b.1960).
2015: Julio Scherer, Mexican journalist (b.1926).
2016: Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe, Mexican lawyer and politician (b.1922).
2016: Jesús María Ramón Valdés, Mexican politician (b.1938).
2018: France Gall, French singer (b.1947).
2020: Neil Peart, Canadian drummer (b.1952).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

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January 7 – A Day as Today – Celebrations

Postal Stamp Day.
Orthodox Christmas.
Colombia: Sixth and last day of the Black and White Carnival, in Pasto.

Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”

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January 7 – A Day as Today – Catholic Santoral

Saint Polieutus, martyr (c. 250).
Saint Lucian of Nicomedia, priest of the Church of Antioch and martyr (312).
Saint Valentine of Passau, Bishop of the Retia (c. 450).
Saint Crispino, bishop (467).
Saint Valentinian of Chur, bishop (548).
Saint Tilón (c. 702).
Saint Cyrus of Constantinople, bishop (714).
Saint Alderico, bishop (856).
Saint Canute Lavard, martyr (1131).
Saint Raimundo de Peñafort, priest of the Order of Preachers. (1275)
Blessed Mateo Guimerá, Bishop of Agrigento, of the Order of Friars Minor (1351).
Blessed Ambrosio Fernández, martyr (1620).
Saint Joseph Tuân, martyr (1862).
Blessed María Teresa Haze (Juana), virgin, founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross (1876).