January 7<\/p>\n
49 BC \u2013 The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army which is encamped on the north side of the Rubicon river in northeastern Italy.<\/p>\n
1608 \u2013 Fire destroys the colony of Jamestown, Virginia<\/p>\n
1610 \u2013 In a message to\u00a0 Johannes Kepler: 1782 \u2013 The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens<\/p>\n 1785 \u2013 Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries fly from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon<\/p>\n 1894 \u2013 Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing, on the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying a P-51, Mustang, crashes and dies near Franklin, Kentucky, while in pursuit of a reported UFO.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The first public demonstration of an automatic machine language translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Surveyor 7<\/em>, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor moon lander probe series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Black racist sniper Mark Essex is shot and killed by New Orleans police on the roof of the Howard Johnson’s Hotel after killing 9 people and wounding 13 more in different places over the period beginning on December 31st.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 President Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation, which was repaid, with interest, in 1983.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 United Express Flight 6291, a British Aerospace Jetstream 41, crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing 5 of the 8 passengers and crew on board<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 The Senate trial in the impeachment of President Clinton begins<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 Two moslem terrorists assault the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, killing 12 people and wounding 11.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The 6.4Mw\u202f earthquake kill 4 people and injures 9 more in southern Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 7 49 BC \u2013 The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army which is encamped on the north side of the Rubicon river in northeastern Italy. 1608 \u2013 Fire destroys the colony of Jamestown, Virginia 1610 \u2013 In a message to\u00a0 Johannes Kepler: ALTISSIMUM … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63633"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89099,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63633\/revisions\/89099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nALTISSIMUM PLANETAM TERGEMINUM OBSERVAVI<\/em>
\n\u201cI have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form\u201d<\/strong>
\nGalileo Galilei notes his telescopic observation of the first 2 of the 4 largest moons of Saturn: Ganymede and Callisto, distinguishing the last 2, Io and Europa (Attempt No Landing There) the following day.<\/p>\n