January 7th, 1955

Born on January 7th, 1955

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What happened on January 7th, 1955?

January 7th, 1955

Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson

January 7th, 1955

Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson

What else happened on January 7th?

January 7th, 2012

A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.

January 7th, 2010

In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.

January 7th, 1993

The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.

January 7th, 1989

Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.

January 7th, 1979

The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

January 7th, 1948

Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

January 7th, 1939

French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.

January 7th, 1931

Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight.

January 7th, 1797

The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.

January 7th, 1782

The Bank of North America (pictured) opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.

January 7th, 1610

Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night.

January 7th, 2020

After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

January 7th, 2015

A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 7th

Born on January 7th, 1955

69

Mamata Shankar

Indian actress

*January 7th, 1955, Kolkata

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 7th?

31

Nico Santos

German singer-songwriter

*January 7th, 1993, Bremen

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

60

Nicolas Cage

American actor

*January 7th, 1964, Long Beach

72

Hans-Dieter Jancker

German journalist

*January 7th, 1952, Grevesmühlen

53

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

*January 7th, 1971, Modesto

93

Geoffrey Bayldon

British actor (1924-2017)

*January 7th, 1924, Leeds †May 10th, 2017, London

39

Lewis Hamilton

British racing driver

*January 7th, 1985, Stevenage

25

Brandon Austin

English association football player

*January 7th, 1999, Hemel Hempstead

68

David Caruso

American actor

*January 7th, 1956, Forest Hills

24

Rosario Soto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*January 7th, 2000, Cipolletti

33

Eden Hazard

Belgian association football player (born 1991)

*January 7th, 1991, La Louvière

63

Jeff Richmond

American composer, television actor and producer

*January 7th, 1961, Garrettsville

71

Dieter Hoeneß

German footballer and manager

*January 7th, 1953, Ulm

72

Hans-Josef Fell

German Green Party MP (b.1952), author of EEG (Renewable Energy Sources Act)

*January 7th, 1952, Hammelburg

74

Ichirō Mizuki

Japanese singer, voice actor (1948-2022)

*January 7th, 1948, Setagaya-ku †December 6th, 2022, Tokyo

78

Dick Marty

Swiss politician

*January 7th, 1945, Sorengo †December 28th, 2023, Fescoggia

68

Uwe Ochsenknecht

German actor and singer

*January 7th, 1956, Biblis

67

Katie Couric

American journalist, presenter, producer, and author

*January 7th, 1957, Arlington County

61

Rand Paul

United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011

*January 7th, 1963, Pittsburgh

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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Born on January 7th, 1955
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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