Historical Events on January 7

1610: Galileo discovered four of Jupiter’s satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

1789: The American public voted to elect George Washington as the country’s first president.

1859: Trial began against Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar (II) in the Sepoy Mutiny case.

1922: Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai and his colleague Pandit Santanam were sentenced to 18 months for treason.

1927: New York to London telephone service began across the Atlantic Ocean.

1930: Sree Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP) formed by Dr. Padmanabhan Palpu.

1935: Inauguration of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA) at Kolkata.

1942: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose started Azad Hind Radio as part of Germany’s radio service.

1953: US President Harry Truman announced the making of a hydrogen bomb.

1959: The US approved Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba.

1978: MV Chandragupta, a cargo ship with 69 crew members, went missing in the ocean near Honolulu.

1980: Indira Gandhi’s returned to power with an overwhelming majority.

1999: Impeachment began against US President Bill Clinton.

2003: Japan announced $ 90 million in aid to India in development work.

 

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries January 7.

1800: Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States.

1893: Janaki Devi Bajaj, an Indian independence activist.

1920: Sarojini Babar, a Marathi writer and a politician from Maharashtra, India. 

1925: Gerald Durrell, a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter.

1948: Shobha De, an Indian columnist, and novelist. 

1964: Nicolas Cage, an American actor, and filmmaker.

1967: Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor.

1979: Bipasha Basu, an Indian film actress, and model.

 

Death anniversaries– January 7.

1943: Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist.

1955: Sir Arthur Keith, a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism.

1984: Alfred Kastler, a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.

1989: Hirohito, the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession.

1995: Murray Rothbard, an American heterodox economist, economic historian, and political theorist.

2016: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, a politician from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.