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The day is 人日 ( Jinjitsu ), 七草の節句 in Japan.

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• 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1566 - Pius V becomes Pope.
• 1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
• 1601For other uses, see Number 1601. Events February 8 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England revolt is quickly crushed February 25 Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to r - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
• 1610Events January 7 Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. March 12 Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow May 13- 14 Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France July 5 John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colon - Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei ( Pisa, February 15, 1564 Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His great achievements include perfecting the telescope, a variety of astron observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moonJupiter's 4 Galilean moons, in a composite image comparing their sizes and the size of Jupiter ( Great Red Spot visible). From the top, they are Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei.s.
• 1782Events January 7 The first American commercial bank opens ( Bank of North America). January 15 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage February 5 Span - The first American commercial bank opens ( Bank of North AmericaThe Bank of North America was chartered in 1781 by the Continental Congress and opened on January 7, 1782 at the prodding of Finance Minister Robert Morris, and was rechartered in 1784. This was thus the first modern United States bank. It was succeeded b).
• 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
• 1789 - First nationwide United States election.
• 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
• 1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
• 1904 - The distress signal " CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by " SOS."
• 1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
• 1922 - Dáli Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
• 1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
• 1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
• 1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London.
• 1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements .
• 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• 1954 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
• 1974 - How to Survive a Marriage debuts on the NBC television network in the United States. In the 90-minute premiere, the first nude scene on network television was seen (albeit only in theory, as the nudity was not seen and merely implied).
• 1975 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
• 1979 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are overthrown by Vietnamese troops.
• 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
• 1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1989 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan.
• 1990 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
• 1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.
• 1997 - A team of programmers at the University of Regensburg, Germany releases Tibia, one of the earliest graphical MMORPGs.
• 1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.