What happend on 7th January

06.01
08.01
1922

Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.

1911

Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.

1904

The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."

1901

Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.

1896

Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.

1894

W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

1835

HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.

1785

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first togreen-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.

1782

The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).

1610

Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.