January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia; Flag Day in Italy
Francis, Duke of Guise
- 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured), retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1948 – Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell fatally crashed his P-51 Mustang while in pursuit of a UFO near Fort Knox, Kentucky.
- 2010 – In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas Mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
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