7 January
Notable Births
Blue Ivy Carter
b. 2012
American singer (born 2012)
Chloe Chua
b. 2007
Singaporean violinist (born 2007)
Ryan Dunn (basketball)
b. 2003
American basketball player (born 2003)
Marcus Scribner
b. 2000
American actor (born 2000)
Ozzie Albies
b. 1997
Curaçaoan baseball player (born 1997)
Lamar Jackson
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Alex Nedeljkovic
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Jordan Bell
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Yulia Putintseva
b. 1995
Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player (born 1995)
Jarnell Stokes
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Lee Sun-bin
b. 1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
MacKenzie Weegar
b. 1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Erik Gudbranson
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Tohu Harris
b. 1992
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Tucker Barnhart
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Eden Hazard
b. 1991
Belgian footballer (born 1991)
Caster Semenya
b. 1991
South African middle-distance runner (born 1991)
Michael Walters
b. 1991
Australian rules footballer (born 1991)
Liam Aiken
b. 1990
American actor (born 1990)
Gentleman Jack Gallagher
b. 1990
English professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Notable Deaths
Glenn Hall
d. 2026
Canadian ice hockey player (1931–2026)
Jean-Marie Le Pen
d. 2025
French politician (1928–2025)
Peter Yarrow
d. 2025
American singer and songwriter (1938–2025)
Franz Beckenbauer
d. 2024
German footballer (1945–2024)
Michael Apted
d. 2021
English television and film director and producer
Tommy Lasorda
d. 2021
American baseball player and manager (1927–2021)
Henri Schwery
d. 2021
Swiss Catholic Cardinal (1932���2021)
Neil Peart
d. 2020
Canadian and American drummer (1952–2020)
Elizabeth Wurtzel
d. 2020
American writer and journalist (1967–2020)
Jim Anderton
d. 2018
New Zealand politician (1938–2018)
France Gall
d. 2018
French singer (1947–2018)
Mário Soares
d. 2017
Portuguese statesman (1924–2017)
Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929)
d. 2016
American college basketball coach
John Johnson (basketball, born 1947)
d. 2016
American basketball player (1947–2016)
Kitty Kallen
d. 2016
American singer (1921–2016)
Judith Kaye
d. 2016
American judge (1938–2016)
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
d. 2016
6th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1932–2016)
Mompati Merafhe
d. 2015
6th vice-president of Botswana from 2008 to 2012
Rod Taylor
d. 2015
Australian actor (1930–2015)
Heinrich Harrer
d. 2006
Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
On This Day in History
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2025
A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
2023
The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
2020
The 6.4Mw 2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes
2015
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
Charlie Hebdo shooting
2015
A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
January 2015 Sanaa bombing
2012
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
Hot air balloon
1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
1994
A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
British Aerospace Jetstream 41
1993
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
History of Ghana
1993
Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
Bosnian War
1991
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
Roger Lafontant
1989
Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.
Sutton United F.C.
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.
JAXA
1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Brunei
1980
U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
Jimmy Carter
1979
Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
Sino-Vietnamese War
1973
In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.
Mark Essex
1972
Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
Iberia Flight 602
1968
Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.
Surveyor program
1959
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
Cuba