Daily Almanac for
Jan 16, 2009
Search White Pages
Info search tips
Bio search tips

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

This was 7th day of the year and 358 days remained in the year.


January 7 Birthdays

Millard Fillmore
1800–1874, 13th United States President.

St. Bernadette
saint (1844)

 Francis Poulenc
composer and pianist (1899)

 Zora Neale Hurston
author (1901)

 Charles Addams
cartoonist (1912)

 David Caruso
actor (1956)

 Katie Couric
broadcast journalist (1957)

 Nicolas Cage
actor (1964)

January 7 in History

1896

Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.

1927

Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.

1953

Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.

1955

Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut.

1979

Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

1989

Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.

1999

The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.

Return to perpetual calendar

Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.

    • Cite
    • Print
    • Bookmark