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This is a list of selected January 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Crown Prince Akihito in 1987
A 19th-century woman in the Philippines
Akihito
Io
Europa
Callisto
Galileo Galilei
Guy Menzies
Flag of the Cispadane Republic, the first use of the Italian tricolour
Francis, Duke of Guise
Crossing of the English Channel by Blanchard and Jeffries
Jerry Rawlings
Bank of North America

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.	refimprove section
1598 – Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia.	refimprove
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard, accompanied by American John Jeffries, became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon.	Blanchard: lead too short
1922 – Dáil Éireann narrowly approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence and established the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.	Treaty appears on December 6, War appears on July 11
1924 – The International Hockey Federation, the global governing body for field hockey, was founded in Paris in response to the sport's omission from the 1924 Summer Olympics.	refimprove, date not cited
1940 – Winter War: Outnumbered Finnish troops decisively defeated Soviet forces at the Battle of Raate Road.	single source
1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for women in the Philippines.	refimprove
1989 – Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito, who became known by the posthumous name Emperor Shōwa.	refimprove section
1996 – A major blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States, killing more than 100 people.	unreferenced sections
2015 – The offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were attacked by a branch of Al-Qaeda, leaving twelve people dead.	outdated
Johann Heinrich Zedler \|b\|1706\|	Too much uncited

Eligible

1327 – The Parliament of 1327, which was instrumental in the transfer of the English Crown from King Edward II to his son, Edward III, began at the Palace of Westminster.
1610 – Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night.
1782 – The Bank of North America (pictured) opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.
1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight.
1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
1955 – Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1978 – An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
1989 – Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
1989 – In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
2010 – In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.
2012 – A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.
Born/died this day: | Charles I of Anjou |d|1285| Nicholas Hilliard |d|1619| Joseph Dennie |d|1812| E. Louisa Mather |b|1815| Albert Bierstadt |b|1830| Eliezer Ben-Yehuda |b|1858| Anna Murray Vail |b|1863| Edmund Barton |d|1920| James Humphreys |b|1930| Li Shengjiao |b|1935| Juan Gabriel |b|1950|Helena Válková |b|1951| Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers |d|1960| Zara Cisco Brough |d|1988| Caster Semenya |b|1991| Amanda Asay |d|2022

Notes

Simon Marius appears on January 5, so Galilean moons should not appear in the same year

January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia; Laba Festival in China (2025)

CQD in Morse code

1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
1904 – The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators.
1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
2020 – After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

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