January 7
1789 - The United States held its first presidential election as voters chose electors who, a month later, selected George Washington to be the nation's first chief executive.
1800 - Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, was born in Summerhill, New York.
1896 - Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.
1942 - Japanese forces began besieging American and Filipino troops in Bataan during World War II. (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.)
1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced during his State of the Union address that the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, becoming the first black person to perform there as a member.
1959 -The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1972 - Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the Supreme Court.
1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.
1989 - Japan's Emperor Hirohito died at age 87; he was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
1996 - A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives.
1997 - Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected as House Speaker in 68 years.
1999 - For the second time in history, an impeached American president went on trial before the U.S. Senate as President Bill Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was later acquitted.)
2004 - President George W. Bush proposed legal status, at least temporarily, for millions of immigrants improperly working in the U.S.
2005 - Actor Brad Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.
2006 - American journalist Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq and a translator was killed. (Carroll was released unharmed after 82 days.)
2006 - Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, facing corruption charges, stepped down as House majority leader. (DeLay was found guilty in Nov. 2010 of illegally funneling corporate money to Texas candidates; his conviction was eventually overturned.)
2011 - A package addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited at a Washington postal facility, a day after fiery packages sent to Maryland’s governor and state transportation secretary burned the fingers of workers who opened them.
2015 - Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Mohammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)
2016 - President Barack Obama tore into the National Rifle Association during a televised town hall meeting in Fairfax, Virginia, as he dismissed what he called a “conspiracy” alleging that the federal government — and Obama in particular — wanted to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law.
2019 - Amazon eclipsed Microsoft as the most valuable publicly-traded company in the United States.
2019 - For the first time in more than 25 years, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent from oral arguments as she recuperated from cancer surgery.
2020 - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake, the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in more than 100 years, killed one person, injured nine others and knocked out power across the U.S. territory.
Birthdays
21 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
21 - Kerri Medders (actress)
24 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
26 - Leslie Grace (singer)
27 - Nadine Leopold (model)
30 - Max Morrow (actor)
31 - Camryn Grimes (actress)
31 - Liam Aiken (actor)
33 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
34 - Lyndsy Fonseca (actress)
35 - Camille Rowe (model)
38 - Robert Ri'chard (actor)
38 - Brett Dalton (actor)
39 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
42 - Reggie Austin (actor)
44 - Dustin Diamond (actor)
47 - John Rich (country singer)
50 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
50 - Kevin Rahm (actor)
51 - Doug E. Doug (actor)
52 - Rex Lee (actor)
57 - Nicolas Cage (actor)
58 - Rand Paul (politician)
59 - Hallie Todd (actress)
61 - David Marciano (actor)
62 - David Lee Murphy (country singer)
64 - Katie Couric (TV host)
65 - David Caruso (actor)
67 - Jodi Long (actress)
71 - Erin Gray (actress)
73 - Kenny Loggins (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 7
1899 - Walter Camp publishes his first college football All-America team.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set an NBA record by winning their 33rd consecutive game.
1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set an NHL record with 35 consecutive games without a loss.
1985 - Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1991 - Pete Rose left an Illinois federal prison and checked into a halfway house in Cincinnati. He was completing a sentence for cheating on his taxes.
1992 - Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1994 - Nancy Kerrigan withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The previous day her right leg was severely bruised in an attack following a practice session; Tonya Harding won the championship.
1995 - The NHL Board of Governors threatened to cancel the regular season if the striking players did not agree with raising unrestricted free agency from 30 years to 32 years of age.
1998 - Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks the 1,000th shot of his career.
1999 - NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association.
2007 - Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson becomes the fastest coach in NBA history to record 900 career wins.
2008 - #2 LSU defeats #1 Ohio State 38-24 in New Orleans to win the BCS National Championship.
2010 - #1 Alabama defeats #2 Texas 37-21 in the BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California.
2013 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Notre Dame 42-14 in Miami in the BCS National Championship Game.
2019 - #2 Clemson defeats #1 Alabama 44-16 in Santa Clara, California to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
1789 - The United States held its first presidential election as voters chose electors who, a month later, selected George Washington to be the nation's first chief executive.
1800 - Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, was born in Summerhill, New York.
1896 - Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.
1942 - Japanese forces began besieging American and Filipino troops in Bataan during World War II. (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.)
1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced during his State of the Union address that the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, becoming the first black person to perform there as a member.
1959 -The United States recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.
1972 - Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the Supreme Court.
1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.
1989 - Japan's Emperor Hirohito died at age 87; he was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
1996 - A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives.
1997 - Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected as House Speaker in 68 years.
1999 - For the second time in history, an impeached American president went on trial before the U.S. Senate as President Bill Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was later acquitted.)
2004 - President George W. Bush proposed legal status, at least temporarily, for millions of immigrants improperly working in the U.S.
2005 - Actor Brad Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.
2006 - American journalist Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq and a translator was killed. (Carroll was released unharmed after 82 days.)
2006 - Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, facing corruption charges, stepped down as House majority leader. (DeLay was found guilty in Nov. 2010 of illegally funneling corporate money to Texas candidates; his conviction was eventually overturned.)
2011 - A package addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited at a Washington postal facility, a day after fiery packages sent to Maryland’s governor and state transportation secretary burned the fingers of workers who opened them.
2015 - Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Mohammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)
2016 - President Barack Obama tore into the National Rifle Association during a televised town hall meeting in Fairfax, Virginia, as he dismissed what he called a “conspiracy” alleging that the federal government — and Obama in particular — wanted to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law.
2019 - Amazon eclipsed Microsoft as the most valuable publicly-traded company in the United States.
2019 - For the first time in more than 25 years, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent from oral arguments as she recuperated from cancer surgery.
2020 - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake, the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in more than 100 years, killed one person, injured nine others and knocked out power across the U.S. territory.
Birthdays
21 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
21 - Kerri Medders (actress)
24 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
26 - Leslie Grace (singer)
27 - Nadine Leopold (model)
30 - Max Morrow (actor)
31 - Camryn Grimes (actress)
31 - Liam Aiken (actor)
33 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
34 - Lyndsy Fonseca (actress)
35 - Camille Rowe (model)
38 - Robert Ri'chard (actor)
38 - Brett Dalton (actor)
39 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
42 - Reggie Austin (actor)
44 - Dustin Diamond (actor)
47 - John Rich (country singer)
50 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
50 - Kevin Rahm (actor)
51 - Doug E. Doug (actor)
52 - Rex Lee (actor)
57 - Nicolas Cage (actor)
58 - Rand Paul (politician)
59 - Hallie Todd (actress)
61 - David Marciano (actor)
62 - David Lee Murphy (country singer)
64 - Katie Couric (TV host)
65 - David Caruso (actor)
67 - Jodi Long (actress)
71 - Erin Gray (actress)
73 - Kenny Loggins (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 7
1899 - Walter Camp publishes his first college football All-America team.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set an NBA record by winning their 33rd consecutive game.
1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set an NHL record with 35 consecutive games without a loss.
1985 - Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1991 - Pete Rose left an Illinois federal prison and checked into a halfway house in Cincinnati. He was completing a sentence for cheating on his taxes.
1992 - Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1994 - Nancy Kerrigan withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The previous day her right leg was severely bruised in an attack following a practice session; Tonya Harding won the championship.
1995 - The NHL Board of Governors threatened to cancel the regular season if the striking players did not agree with raising unrestricted free agency from 30 years to 32 years of age.
1998 - Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers blocks the 1,000th shot of his career.
1999 - NBA Board of Governors unanimously ratifies a new 6-year collective bargaining agreement between the league and the National Basketball Players Association.
2007 - Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson becomes the fastest coach in NBA history to record 900 career wins.
2008 - #2 LSU defeats #1 Ohio State 38-24 in New Orleans to win the BCS National Championship.
2010 - #1 Alabama defeats #2 Texas 37-21 in the BCS National Championship Game in Pasadena, California.
2013 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Notre Dame 42-14 in Miami in the BCS National Championship Game.
2019 - #2 Clemson defeats #1 Alabama 44-16 in Santa Clara, California to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
