On this day: January 7th
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49 BC The Senate of the Roman Republic says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
1325 Afonso IV of Portugal becomes List of Portuguese monarchs.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of Kingdom of England.
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede (moon), Callisto (moon), Io (moon) and Europa (moon), although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.
1708 – Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711.
1708 – Bashkir rebels Siege of Yelabuga (1708) Yelabuga.
1738 A peace treaty is signed between Baji Rao I and Jai Singh II following Maratha Confederacy victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1782 The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, to Calais, in a gas balloon.
1835 , with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1867 The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction era-era South Carolina.
1894 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for film.
1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1907 A Río Blanco strike, Veracruz leaves many people dead and injured while demanding better working conditions.
1919 Montenegro guerrilla fighters Christmas Uprising against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist Party of America assemblymen.
1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1927 The first history of the telephone is established from New York City to London.
1928 A disastrous 1928 Thames flood kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1931 Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's Westland District.
1935 Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940 Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1948 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while Mantell UFO incident a supposed unidentified flying object.
1950 In the 1950 Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Forces – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1954 Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''.
1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1968 Surveyor program: ''Surveyor 7'', the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.
1972 Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1973 In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first Robotic spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 Sutton United F.C., a team in the fifth tier of English football league system, Sutton United 2–1 Coventry City (1989) top-tier Coventry City F.C. in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.
1991 Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1993 The History of Ghana # Fourth Republic (1993–present) is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993 Bosnian War: The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina executes a Kravica attack (1993) at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1994 A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1999 The Senate trial in the Impeachment of Bill Clinton of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2012 A hot air balloon 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
2015 Two gunmen commit Charlie Hebdo shooting at the offices of ''Charlie Hebdo'' in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
2015 A car bomb January 2015 Sana'a bombing outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2020 The 6.4 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2021 The United States Congress certifies the results of 2020 United States presidential election, confirming the election of Joe Biden, on the morning of the 7th after January 6 United States Capitol attack Donald Trump, who lost re-election to Biden and Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
2023 The longest January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives of the United States House of Representatives.
889 Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 943)
1355 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1397)
1414 Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1451)
1502 Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and composer (d. 1666)
1647 William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1685 Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agronomist and businessman (d. 1761)
1706 Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1713 Giovanni Battista Locatelli (opera director), Italian opera director and manager (d. 1785)
1718 Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
1746 George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1823)
1768 Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (d. 1844)
1797 Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico), Mexican general and 16th president (1845–1846) (d. 1849)
1800 Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
1814 Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (d. 1837)
1815 Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (d. 1882)
1827 Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 Albert Bierstadt, American painter (d. 1902)
1831 Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
1832 James Munro (Australian politician), Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
1837 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line (d. 1899)
1844 Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (d. 1879)
1852 Quianu Robinson, New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (d. 1919)
1858 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)
1863 Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (d. 1955)
1871 Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (d. 1914)
1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
1875 Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1876 William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
1877 William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1928)
1889 Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina (d. 1982)
1890 Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (d. 1965)
1891 Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (d. 1960)
1895 Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas (d. 1974)
1898 Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; d. 1941)
1899 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (d. 1963)
1899 F. Orlin Tremaine, American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (''Astounding Stories'') (d. 1956)
1900 John Brownlee (baritone), Australian actor and singer (d. 1969)
1903 Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
1903 Hooley Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1963)
1904 Joseph Whitty, Irish republicanism died while on hunger strike at Curragh Camp (d.1923).
1908 Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
1910 Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1912 Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988)
1913 Francis de Wolff, English actor (d. 1984)
1913 Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1916 W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)
1916 Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1920 Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
1921 Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (d. 1997)
1921 Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (d. 1975)
1922 Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
1923 Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
1923 Vaklush Tolev, Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (d. 2013)
1924 Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (d. 2017)
1925 Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
1926 Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2018)
1928 William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1929 Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
1929 Terry Moore (actress), American actress
1931 Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
1933 Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
1934 Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Minister of Labour (Canada) (d. 2002)
1934 Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
1935 Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2006)
1935 Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2014)
1935 Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and international jurist (d. 2017)
1936 Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist
1938 Bob Boland, Australian rugby league player and coach
1938 Lou Graham, American golfer
1938 Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (d. 1972)
1941 Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 John Steiner, English actor (d. 2022)
1941 John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
1942 Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (d. 2011)
1943 Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known for one thousand origami cranes (d. 1955)
1944 Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer
1944 Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic (d. 2020)
1945 Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1945 Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
1946 Michele Elliott, author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape
1946 Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded ''Rolling Stone''
1947 Tony Elliott (publisher), English publisher, founded ''Time Out (magazine)'' (d. 2020)
1948 Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter
1950 Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1950 Erin Gray, American actress and model
1952 Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
1953 Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
1954 Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
1955 Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
1956 David Caruso, American actor
1957 Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
1959 Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
1959 Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
1960 David Marciano, American actor
1960 Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1961 John Thune, American lawyer and politician
1962 Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views
1962 Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
1962 Hallie Todd, American actress
1963 Rand Paul, American politician and physician
1964 Nicolas Cage, American actor
1965 Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1965 Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian runner
1967 Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1967 Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020)
1967 Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1969 Rex Lee (actor), American actor
1969 Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager
1970 Andy Burnham, English politician
1970 Doug E. Doug, American actor
1971 Kevin Rahm, American actor
1971 Jeremy Renner, American actor
1972 Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
1974 Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician
1976 Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
1976 Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976 Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
1977 Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
1977 Brent Sopel, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Dean Cosker, English cricketer and umpire
1979 Reggie Austin (actor), American actor
1979 Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist
1980 Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player
1981 Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1981 Travis Friend, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 Lauren Cohan, American-English actress
1982 Francisco Rodríguez (baseball, born 1982), Venezuelan baseball player
1982 Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1983 Brett Dalton, American actor
1983 Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1983 Cappie Pondexter, American basketball player
1983 Robert Ri'chard, American actor
1984 Jon Lester, American baseball player
1985 Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
1985 Wayne Routledge, English footballer
1987 Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
1987 Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
1987 Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
1988 Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
1988 Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1990 Liam Aiken, American actor
1990 Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler
1990 Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
1991 Tucker Barnhart, American baseball player
1991 Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
1991 Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
1991 Michael Walters, Australian footballer
1992 Erik Gudbranson, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player
1994 Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player
1994 Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
1994 MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player
1995 Jordan Bell, American basketball player
1995 Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player
1996 Alex Nedeljkovic, American ice hockey player
1997 Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player
1997 Lamar Jackson, American football player
2000 Marcus Scribner, American actor
2003 Ryan Dunn (basketball), American basketball player
2004 Sofia Wylie, American actress, singer, and dancer
2012 Blue Ivy Carter, American singer and actress
312 Lucian of Antioch, Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (b. 240)
838 Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
856 Aldric of Le Mans, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans
1131 Canute Lavard, Danish prince and saint (b. 1096)
1285 Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
1325 Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
1355 Inês de Castro, Castilian noblewoman (b. 1325)
1400 John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (b. 1350)
1451 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
1529 Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (b. 1455)
1536 Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
1566 Louis de Blois, Flemish monk and author (b. 1506)
1619 Nicholas Hilliard, English painter and goldsmith (b. 1547)
1625 Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and author (b. 1560)
1655 Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1658 Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st List of colonial governors of Connecticut (b. 1590)
1694 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (b. 1618)
1700 Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)
1715 François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
1758 Allan Ramsay (poet), Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1686)
1767 Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (b. 1703)
1770 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
1812 Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
1830 John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
1830 Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (b. 1769)
1858 Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, List of Ottoman grand viziers (b. 1800)
1864 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1888 Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (b. 1824)
1892 Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
1893 Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1912 Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (b. 1840)
1919 Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
1920 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1927 Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
1931 Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
1932 André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877)
1936 Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
1941 Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and engineer (b. 1856)
1951 René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1960 Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
1963 Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
1967 David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
1967 Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
1968 J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
1972 John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
1981 Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer (b. 1908)
1981 Eric Robinson (Australian politician), Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Minister for Finance (Australia) (b. 1926)
1984 Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1902)
1986 Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (b. 1917)
1988 Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (b. 1919)
1988 Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
1989 Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
1990 Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908)
1992 Richard Hunt (puppeteer), American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
1995 Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and theorist (b. 1926)
1996 Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st List of Prime Ministers of Hungary (b. 1930)
1998 Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
1998 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1906)
2000 Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
2001 James Carr (singer), American singer (b. 1942)
2002 Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)
2004 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2005 Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
2006 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (b. 1912)
2007 Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1957)
2007 Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (b. 1929)
2008 Alwyn Schlebusch, South African academic and politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
2012 Tony Blankley, British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (b. 1948)
2014 Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b. 1907)
2015 Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (b. 1936)
2015 Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2015 Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (b. 1934)
2016 Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929), American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
2016 John Johnson (basketball, born 1947), American basketball player (b. 1947)
2016 Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
2016 Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938)
2016 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Minister of Home Affairs (India) (b. 1936)
2017 Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924)
2018 Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1938)
2018 France Gall, French singer (b. 1947)
2020 Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1952)
2020 Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)
2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (b. 1967)
2021 Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
2021 Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1927)
2021 Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932)
2024 Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
Christian Feast Day:
- André Bessette (Canada)
- Canute Lavard
- Charles of Sezze
- Felix and Januarius
- Lucian of Antioch
- Raymond of Penyafort
- Synaxis of John the Baptist (Julian calendar)
- January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar, Rastafari # Grounding)
- Christmas in Russia
- Christmas in Ukraine
- Ethiopian Christmas
- Public holidays in Armenia (Armenia)
Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
Nanakusa-no sekku (Japan)
Public holidays in Liberia (Liberia)
Flag of Italy or ''Festa del Tricolore'' (Italy)
Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)
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[https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/7 Historical Events on January 7]