January 7
1608 - An accidental fire devastated the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony.
1789 - America 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 - The World War II siege of Bataan began.
1953 - President Harry Truman announced in 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.
1963 - The U.S. Post Office raised the cost of a first-class stamp from 4 to 5 cents.
1972 - Lewis F. Powell Jr. 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 House speaker in 68 years.
1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the U.S. Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was ultimately acquitted.)
2004 - President George W. Bush proposed legal status, at least temporarily, for millions of immigrants improperly working in the U.S.
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.
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.)
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.
2021 - Hours after Congress certified Joe Biden’s victory, President Donald Trump acknowledged in a video that a “new administration will be inaugurated” and said he’d focus on “ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power”; Trump condemned the violence from his supporters who stormed the Capitol but did not address his role in inciting the violence. Lawmakers of both parties spoke of ousting Trump from office, possibly through the action of his own Cabinet under the 25th Amendment. President-elect Joe Biden denounced the rioters at the Capitol as “domestic terrorists” and blamed Trump for the violence. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned; in a resignation letter, DeVos blamed Trump for inflaming tensions in the assault on the Capitol. The head of the U.S. Capitol Police, Steven Sund, resigned. Facebook and Instagram said they would silence Trump’s accounts for the rest of his presidency.
Birthdays
22 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
22 - Kerri Medders (actress)
25 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
27 - Leslie Grace (singer)
28 - Nadine Leopold (model)
31 - Max Morrow (actor)
32 - Camryn Grimes (actress)
32 - Camille Rowe (model)
32 - Liam Aiken (actor)
34 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
35 - Lyndsy Fonseca (actress)
39 - Robert Ri'chard (actor)
39 - Brett Dalton (actor)
40 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
43 - Reggie Austin (actor)
48 - John Rich (singer)
51 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
51 - Kevin Rahm (actor)
52 - Doug E. Doug (actor)
53 - Rex Lee (actor)
58 - Nicholas Cage (actor)
60 - Hallie Todd (actress)
62 - David Marciano (actor)
63 - Kathy Valentine (musician)
63 - David Lee Murphy (country singer)
65 - Katie Couric (TV host)
66 - David Caruso (actor)
68 - Jodi Long (actress)
72 - Erin Gray (actress)
74 - 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 - In Hinckley, Illinois, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.
1961 - In the first NFL Playoff Bowl (third-place game), the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns 17-16.
1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set a National Basketball Association (NBA) record when they won their 33rd consecutive game.
1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set a National Hockey League (NHL) record with 35 consecutive games without a loss.
1989 - The Cleveland Cavaliers tie an NBA record by blocking 21 shots in a game against the New York Knicks.
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 went on to win the U.S. 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 records his 1,000th career blocked shot.
2007 - Los Angeles Lakers head 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 the BCS National Championship Game.
2010 - #1 Alabama defeats #2 Texas 37-21 in the BCS National Championship Game.
2013 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Notre Dame 42-14 in the BCS National Championship Game.
2019 - #2 Clemson defeats #1 Alabama 44-16 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2021 - Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda died at 93.
1608 - An accidental fire devastated the Jamestown settlement in the Virginia Colony.
1789 - America 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 - The World War II siege of Bataan began.
1953 - President Harry Truman announced in 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.
1963 - The U.S. Post Office raised the cost of a first-class stamp from 4 to 5 cents.
1972 - Lewis F. Powell Jr. 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 House speaker in 68 years.
1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the U.S. Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was ultimately acquitted.)
2004 - President George W. Bush proposed legal status, at least temporarily, for millions of immigrants improperly working in the U.S.
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.
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.)
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.
2021 - Hours after Congress certified Joe Biden’s victory, President Donald Trump acknowledged in a video that a “new administration will be inaugurated” and said he’d focus on “ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power”; Trump condemned the violence from his supporters who stormed the Capitol but did not address his role in inciting the violence. Lawmakers of both parties spoke of ousting Trump from office, possibly through the action of his own Cabinet under the 25th Amendment. President-elect Joe Biden denounced the rioters at the Capitol as “domestic terrorists” and blamed Trump for the violence. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned; in a resignation letter, DeVos blamed Trump for inflaming tensions in the assault on the Capitol. The head of the U.S. Capitol Police, Steven Sund, resigned. Facebook and Instagram said they would silence Trump’s accounts for the rest of his presidency.
Birthdays
22 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
22 - Kerri Medders (actress)
25 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
27 - Leslie Grace (singer)
28 - Nadine Leopold (model)
31 - Max Morrow (actor)
32 - Camryn Grimes (actress)
32 - Camille Rowe (model)
32 - Liam Aiken (actor)
34 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
35 - Lyndsy Fonseca (actress)
39 - Robert Ri'chard (actor)
39 - Brett Dalton (actor)
40 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
43 - Reggie Austin (actor)
48 - John Rich (singer)
51 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
51 - Kevin Rahm (actor)
52 - Doug E. Doug (actor)
53 - Rex Lee (actor)
58 - Nicholas Cage (actor)
60 - Hallie Todd (actress)
62 - David Marciano (actor)
63 - Kathy Valentine (musician)
63 - David Lee Murphy (country singer)
65 - Katie Couric (TV host)
66 - David Caruso (actor)
68 - Jodi Long (actress)
72 - Erin Gray (actress)
74 - 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 - In Hinckley, Illinois, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.
1961 - In the first NFL Playoff Bowl (third-place game), the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns 17-16.
1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set a National Basketball Association (NBA) record when they won their 33rd consecutive game.
1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set a National Hockey League (NHL) record with 35 consecutive games without a loss.
1989 - The Cleveland Cavaliers tie an NBA record by blocking 21 shots in a game against the New York Knicks.
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 went on to win the U.S. 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 records his 1,000th career blocked shot.
2007 - Los Angeles Lakers head 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 the BCS National Championship Game.
2010 - #1 Alabama defeats #2 Texas 37-21 in the BCS National Championship Game.
2013 - #2 Alabama defeats #1 Notre Dame 42-14 in the BCS National Championship Game.
2019 - #2 Clemson defeats #1 Alabama 44-16 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
2021 - Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda died at 93.
