Template:On this day/7 Januar
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei maks his first observation o the fower Galilean muins: Ganymede, Callisto, Io an Europa, awtho he is nae able tae distinguish the last twa till the follaein day.
- 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established frae New York Ceety tae Lunnon.
- 1939 – Marguerite Perey diskivers Francium, the last element first diskivert in naitur, raither nor bi synthesis.
- 1979 – Third Indocheenae War: Cambodie–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh (picturt) faws tae the advancin Vietnamese truips, drivin oot Pol Pot an the Khmer Rouge.
- 2015 – Twa gunmen commit mass murther at the offices o Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shuitin twal fowk execution style, an woundin eleven ithers.
Millard Fillmore (b. 1800) · Nicolas Cage (b. 1964) · Jeremy Renner (b. 1971)