January 7 in History

• 1927

  January 7, 1927:

  The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team plays its first game in Illinois, Chicago.

• 1950

  January 7, 1950:

  The Christmas song, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” climbs to number one on the US pop charts.

• 1955

  January 7, 1955:

  Marian Anderson, the opera contralto performs with the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in New York.

• 1963

  January 7, 1963:

  The Cleveland Browns fire their head coach, Paul Brown.

• 1968

  January 7, 1968:

  The Surveyor 7 space probe of the United States is launched.

• 2001

  January 7, 2001:

  John Kufuor is sworn in as Ghana’s president, marking the country’s first peaceful transition from one elected administration to another.

• 2003

  January 7, 2003:

  The Coptic calendar’s Christmas day is marked as a holiday for the first time in Egypt.

• January 7, 2003:

  50 Cent’s hit song, “In Da Club” is released.

• 2015

  January 7, 2015:

  The Charlie Hebdo magazine’s Paris office is thrown in disarray when two gunmen kill 12 people for the satirical publications of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.