January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia; Feast of the Tricolour in Italy
Francis, Duke of Guise
- 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured), retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
- 1782 – The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the United States' first de facto central bank.
- 1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- 1989 – Representatives of Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
- 2015 – The offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were attacked by Al-Qaeda affiliates, leaving twelve people dead.
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