January 7: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1610 - Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
2. 1782 - The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
3. 1835 - HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
4. 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
5. 1927 - The first transatlantic telephone service is established - from New York, New York toLondon, United Kingdom.
6. 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translationsystem, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
7. 1968 - Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off fromlaunch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
8. 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
9. 1985 - 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.
10. 1999 - The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
11. Famous Birthdays: Adam Krieger (German composer), Millard Fillmore (American politician, 13th President of the United States), Sandford Fleming (Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time), Johann Philipp Reis (German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone), Emanuil Manolov (Bulgarian composer)

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