Friday, January 07th The 007th day of 2011. There are 358 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 7, 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 7, 1871, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the German empire. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1789 | The first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president. |
1800 | Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, was born in Summerhill, N.Y. |
1927 | Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London. |
1942 | The World War II siege of Bataan began. |
1953 | President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. |
1955 | Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, becoming the first black person to perform there as a member. |
1959 | The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba. |
1972 | Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the Supreme Court. |
1989 | Japanese Emperor Hirohito died at age 87. |
1996 | A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives. |
1997 | Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected House speaker in 68 years. |
1999 | President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. |
2005 | Actor Brad Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage. |
2006 | American journalist Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq and a translator was killed. (Carroll was released unharmed after 82 days.) |
2006 | Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, facing corruption charges, stepped down as House majority leader. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeremy Renner turns 40 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Actor Jeremy Renner ("The Hurt Locker") turns 40 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
Adolph Zukor | |
1/7/1873 - 6/10/1976 American entrepreneur (Go to obit.) | |
66 | James Harrington 1/7/1611 - 9/11/1677 English political philosopher |
63 | Johann Christian Fabricius 1/7/1745 - 3/3/1808 Dutch entomologist |
74 | Millard Fillmore 1/7/1800 - 3/8/1874 13th president of the United States (1850-53) |
35 | Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1/7/1844 - 4/16/1879 French nun |
76 | Herbert John Gladstone 1/7/1854 - 3/6/1930 English statesman |
85 | Émile Borel 1/7/1871 - 2/3/1956 French mathematician |
64 | Francis Poulenc 1/7/1899 - 1/30/1963 French composer |
69 | Aristotle Onassis 1/7/1906 (O.S.) - 3/15/1975 Greek shipping magnate |
59 | Henry Allen 1/7/1908 - 4/17/1967 American jazz musician |
76 | Charles Addams 1/7/1912 - 9/29/1988 American cartoonist |
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