Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 7
January 7: Christmas (Christianity-Julian calendar)
- 1558 - Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured) retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
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- 1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London.
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- 1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the People's Army of Vietnam, effectively ending the Democratic Kampuchea regime.
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