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1785 : First Channel crossing by balloonOn January 7, 1785, French Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries crossed the Channel for the first time by balloon, between Dover and Calais. They almost ended up in the sea and had to throw overboard everything they found in order to stay in the air to Calais. |
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1789 : First U.S. presidential electionOn January 7, 1789 the first presidential elections in the U.S. are held. White men who own property in one of the States vote for the state electors who then choose the President. As expected, George Washington became the first president of the United States. |
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1979 : End of the Khmer Rouge regimeOn January 7, 1979, Vietnamese troops seized the capital of Cambodia Phnom Penh and toppled the regime of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. |
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1980 : Indira Gandhi re-electedOn January 7, 1980, Indira Gandhi was re-elected by an overwhelming majority three years after having been rejected for her "emergency dictatorship". Her Congress party won 351 out of 525 seats in the lower house of Indian parliament. |
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2009 : Export of Russian gas to Europe stoppedOn January 7, 2009, Russia stopped completely to export gas to Europe via Ukraine due to a dispute between Ukraine and Gazprom over a debt of $ 2.4 billion. An agreement was reached between Ukraine and Gazprom on January 20. |
Novità del giorno : 07 Gennaio
Victory from Genocide Day On this day we commemorate the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. |
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Nanakusa no sekku On January 7th, Nanakusa No sekku, Festival of Seven Herbs, is celebrated in Japan. The Japanese eat rice porridge made of seven wild spring herbs : Japanese parsley (seri), Shepherd's purse (nazuna), Jersey Cudweed (gogyō), Common chickweed (hakobera), Nipplewort (hotokenoza), Turnip (suzuna), daikon (suzushiro). |
Citazione del giorno : 07 Gennaio
Simone Signoret, actrice Française My heart is a closet where all the costumes for my characters are hooked. |
Compleanni : 07 Gennaio
Charles Péguy, Poeta (1873) | |
Charles Addams, Autore di fumetti (1912) | |
Jackie Sardou, Attrice francese (1919) | |
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Flautista francese (1922) | |
Valeri Kubasov, Cosmonauta (1935) | |
Elvis Presley, Cantante (1935) | |
Frederick D. Gregory, Astronauta (1941) | |
Kenny Loggins, Cantante (1948) | |
Erin Gray, Attrice (1950) | |
David Caruso, Attore (1956) | |
Linda Kozlowski, Attrice (1958) | |
Supriya Pathak, Attrice (1961) | |
Nicolas Cage, Attore (1964) | |
Nick Clegg, Capo del gruppo liberaldemocratico inglese (1967) | |
Dustin Diamond, Attore (1977) | |
Lewis Hamilton, Pilota di F1 (1985) | |
Gregor Schlierenzauer, Ski jumper austriaco (1990) |
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François Fénelon, Scrittore (1715) | |
Allan Ramsay, Poeta (1758) | |
Thomas Lawrence, Pittore (1830) | |
François-Vincent Raspail, Chimico (1878) | |
Jožef Stefan, Fisico e matematico sloveno (1893) | |
Edmund Barton, Primo ministro dell'Australia (1920) | |
John Berryman, Poeta (1972) | |
Alfred Kastler, Fisico (1984) | |
Trevor Howard, Attore (1988) | |
Michel Auclair, Attore (1988) | |
Hirohito, Imperatore del Giappone (1989) | |
Vladimir Prelog, Chimico (1998) |
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