Unforgettable Moments: January 7 in History

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In this video, we'll take a look back at some of the most memorable moments on January 7 in history... this day has seen it all!

Here’s a list of some of the most memorable moments on January 7 in history:

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1817 2nd Bank of US opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1830 1st US Railroad Station opens in Baltimore
1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1904 Marconi Co. establishes "CQD" (Seeking You. Distress!) as 1st international radio distress signal - not adopted universally
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game in Hinckley, Illinois
1929 "Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
1929 "tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip created and drawn by Alex Raymond debuts
1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1948 Thomas Mantell, a pilot for the Kentucky Air National Guard, crashes while pursuing a supposed UFO
1948 US President Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan to assist in rebuilding Europe after WWII
1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb
1958 Gibson Guitars receives US patent for their 'Flying V' electric guitar model; eventually used by Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, Dave Davies of the Kinks, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing
1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary
1980 US President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a 1.5 billion dollar loan
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton
1999 President Bill Clinton's Impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
2019 Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
2021 Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla, becomes the world's richest person, worth $186 billion, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
2021 Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blocks President Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram till January 20, following suspension of his other social media accounts the previous day
2021 US Congress completes the ceremonial certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory late in the night after an earlier unprecedented breach of the Capitol by Trump supporters
2022 First successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human when genetically modified pig's heart inserted into a 53 year old man in Baltimore, Maryland