📅 January 7 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on January 7? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
⏳ On this day in history
- 1610Galileo Galilei saw four moons of Jupiter through his telescope
- 1785Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries flew a hot-air balloon across the English Channel from England to France
- 1894Thomas Edison’s studio filmed a short movie of a man sneezing
- 1927The first commercial telephone service across the Atlantic Ocean opened, between New York and London
- 1954A computer translated sentences from one language to another for the first time in public
🎂 Born on January 7
- 📚 Zora Neale Hurston (1891) — author and folklorist
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January 7 quiz
In what year? 🔭 Galileo Galilei saw four moons of Jupiter through his telescope
In what year? 🎈 Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries flew a hot-air balloon across the English Channel from England to France
In what year? 🎬 Thomas Edison’s studio filmed a short movie of a man sneezing
Which famous person was born on January 7?