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January 7

 * 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
 * 1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
 * 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
 * 1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
 * 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.