Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 7

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This is a list of selected January 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1558Francis, Duke of Guise, retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France. refimprove section
1598Boris Godunov became the first non-Rurikid Tsar of Russia. refimprove
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard, accompanied by American John Jeffries, became the first to cross the English Channel by air, in a balloon. Blanchard: lead too short
1922Dáil Éireann narrowly approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which ended the Irish War of Independence and established the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Empire. Treaty appears on December 6, War appears on July 11
1924 – The International Hockey Federation, the global governing body for field hockey, was founded in Paris in response to the sport's omission from the 1924 Summer Olympics. refimprove, date not cited
1940Winter War: Outnumbered Finnish troops decisively defeated Soviet forces at the Battle of Raate Road. single source
1975 – The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established to promote empowerment and gender equality for women in the Philippines. refimprove
1989Akihito became Emperor of Japan upon the death of his father, Hirohito, who became known by the posthumous name Emperor Shōwa. refimprove section
1996 – A major blizzard pounded the East Coast of the United States, killing more than 100 people. unreferenced sections
2015 – The offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were attacked by a branch of Al-Qaeda, leaving twelve people dead. outdated
Johann Heinrich Zedler |b|1706| Too much uncited

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January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)

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