WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY – JANUARY 7

  • 1989 Akihito is sworn in as Emperor of Japan

    His accession to the throne followed the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito, on the same day.

  • 1979 The Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia is overthrown

    Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh that day.

  • 1927 The first transatlantic telephone service is established

    A 3-minute call between New York and London cost about $45 USD, which is roughly $550 in today’s dollars.

  • 1785 Hot air balloon crosses the English Channel

    French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard took about 2½ hours to fly from Dover (UK) to Guînes (France).

  • 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean Moons

    The Italian astronomer spotted the four largest moons of Jupiter that day: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Births On This Day – January 7

  • 1991 Eden Hazard

    Belgian footballer

  • 1985 Lewis Hamilton

    English race car driver

  • 1967 Nick Clegg

    English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

  • 1964 Nicolas Cage

    American actor, producer, director

  • 1943 Sadako Sasaki

    Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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Oh deer!

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Blossom

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First commercial movie screened – December 28, 1895

On this day in 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
 
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U.S. Christmas Season – Statistics & Facts

Christmas is typically the largest economic stimulus for many nations around the world as sales increase dramatically in almost all retail areas. The United States’ retail industry generated over three trillion U.S. dollars during the holidays in 2013. These holiday sales reflected about 19.2 percent of the retail industries total sales that year. As a result, just over 768 thousand employees were hired throughout the United States to compensate for the holiday rush. The Christmas shopping season can start as early as September and some consumers begin even earlier.
 

Home Alone

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December 19, 2018 – Today in Sports History

1887 – Jake Kilrain and Jim Smith fought in a bare knuckles fight which lasted 106 rounds and 2 hours and 30 minutes. The fight was ruled a draw and was halted due to darkness.
1917 – The first regular season games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were played. Five teams made up the league Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers. Quebec did not actually begin operations until two years later. Dave Ritchie (Montreal Wanderers) scored the first goal in NHL history.
1959 – Penn State�s Nittany Lions beat Alabama, 7-0, in the first Liberty Bowl football game.
1964 – ABC used an overhead camera for the first time. The event was the Liberty Bowl.
1979 – ESPN televised its first NHL game. The teams were the Washington Capitals and the Hartford Whales.
1984 – Wayne Gretzky, 23, of the Edmonton Oilers, became only the 18th player in the National Hockey League (NHL) to score more than 1,000 points. He did it in his 424th career game. The previous record was held by Guy Lafleur who did it in 720 games.
1984 – Scotty Bowman became the NHL’s all time winningest coach with his 691st victory.
1985 – Jan Stenerud announced his retirement from the NFL. The football kicker held the record for the most career field goals with 373.
1985 – ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released �The Mouth� from all TV commitments. Cosell continued on ABC Radio for another five years.
1986 – Michael Sergio was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500. Sergio, a Mets fan, had parachuted into Shea Stadium during Game 6 of the World Series.
1988 – The NCAA placed the Oklahoma Sooners football program on probation for violations.
1989 – Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) began a NBA free throw streak of 71 games.
1990 – Bo Jackson (Los Angeles Raiders) became the first athlete to be chosen for All Star Games in two sports.
1991 – Pitcher Steve Howe (New York Yankees) was arrested for cocaine possession.
1999 – Orlando Brown (Cleveland Browns) was ejected from a game for pushing referee Jeff Triplette to the ground. Triplette had accidentally hit Brown in the eye with a weighted penalty flag.
2003 – The baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game was sold for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
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Best Fur Friends

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This Day in Tech History – December 12, 1980

Apple’s IPO Makes Forrest Gump Rich
 
Apple Computer holds their initial public offering, selling 4.6 million shares at $22 per share and turning more than 40 Apple employees and investors into instant millionaires. With the stock value closing at $29, the market capitalization puts the company’s worth at $1.778 billion. Stock held by Steve Jobs is worth $217 million, Steve Wozniak $116 million, and Mike Markkula $203 million. This was the largest IPO in the US since the Ford Motor Company in 1956. Oh, to have gotten a piece of that fruit company back then!
 
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8-Year Old Wows the Harlem Globetrotters

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