WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. JANUARY
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Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. (7. January 1325)

France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. (7. January 1558)

Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. (7. January 1608)

Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. (7. January 1610)

The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. (7. January 1782)

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. (7. January 1785)

The modern Italian flag is first used. (7. January 1797)

HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. (7. January 1835)

William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. (7. January 1894)

The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". (7. January 1904)

Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. (7. January 1919)

The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. (7. January 1920)

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. (7. January 1922)

The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. (7. January 1927)

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 west coast. (7. January 1931)

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. (7. January 1935)

Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. (7. January 1940)

World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. (7. January 1942)

World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. (7. January 1945)

Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. (7. January 1948)