Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 7

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 * 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.
 * 1782 – The Bank of North America (pictured) opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.
 * 1931 – Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight.
 * 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.
 * 1955 – Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
 * 1978 – An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
 * 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.
 * 1989 – In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.
 * 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Born/died this day: | Charles I of Anjou |d|1285| Nicholas Hilliard |d|1619| Joseph Dennie |d|1812| E. Louisa Mather |b|1815| Albert Bierstadt |b|1830| Eliezer Ben-Yehuda |b|1858| Anna Murray Vail |b|1863| Edmund Barton |d|1920| James Humphreys |b|1930| Li Shengjiao |b|1935| Juan Gabriel |b|1950|Helena Válková |b|1951| Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers |d|1960| Zara Cisco Brough |d|1988| Caster Semenya |b|1991|  Amanda Asay |d|2022