WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. JANUARY
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Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. (7. January 1954)

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. (7. January 1955)

The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. (7. January 1959)

The Polaris missile is test launched. (7. January 1960)

Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. (7. January 1968)

The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect. (7. January 1970)

Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers. (7. January 1973)

Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. (7. January 1979)

U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. (7. January 1980)

Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (7. January 1984)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. (7. January 1985)

Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito (7. January 1989)

The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons. (7. January 1990)

Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest. (7. January 1991)

The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. (7. January 1993)

Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. (7. January 1993)

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. (7. January 1999)

The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds. (7. January 2005)

Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander. (7. January 2010)

A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. (7. January 2012)