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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">January 7</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a></b> (Eastern Christianity); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Cambodia" title="Public holidays in Cambodia">Victory over Genocide Day</a></b> in Cambodia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979" title="1979">1979</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricolour_Day" title="Tricolour Day">Tricolour Day</a></b> in Italy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1797" title="1797">1797</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1610" title="1610">1610</a> – Through his telescope, Italian astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo Galilei</a> made the first observation of Jupiter's <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons" title="Galilean moons">Galilean moons</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)" title="Io (moon)">Io</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a></b>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(moon)" title="Ganymede (moon)">Ganymede</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(moon)" title="Callisto (moon)">Callisto</a></b>, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1782" title="1782">1782</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_North_America" title="Bank of North America">Bank of North America</a></b> opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank">central bank</a> of the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> – Representatives of Iranian leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ruhollah Khomeini</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khomeini%27s_letter_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Khomeini's letter to Mikhail Gorbachev">delivered a letter</a></b> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Soviet Bloc</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ghana" title="History of Ghana">Fourth Republic of Ghana</a> was inaugurated with <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings" title="Jerry Rawlings">Jerry Rawlings</a></b>, the country's former military ruler, as president.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon" title="Hot air balloon">hot air balloon</a> flight from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterton,_New_Zealand" title="Carterton, New Zealand">Carterton, New Zealand</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Carterton_hot_air_balloon_crash" title="2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash">collided with a power line while landing</a></b>, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hilliard" title="Nicholas Hilliard">Nicholas Hilliard</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1619); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Louisa_Mather" title="E. Louisa Mather">E. Louisa Mather</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1815); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gabriel" title="Juan Gabriel">Juan Gabriel</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1950)</p>
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