Talk:January 7

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January 7: Christmas (Christianity-Julian calendar).

• 1558 - Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured) retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
• 1610 - Galileo Galilei first observed the Jovian satellites Io, Europa and Callisto through his telescope.
• 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by balloon.
• 1975 - OPEC cut production, raising the price of crude oil by 10 percent.
• 1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the People's Army of Vietnam, effectively ending the Democratic Kampuchea regime.

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January 7