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Important events on January 7

By annagraceray

  • Italian flag

    The modern Italian flag is first used.

  • Literary

    Zora Neale Hurston is born.

  • SOS

    The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS"

  • Telephone

    The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.

  • Automotive

    Walter Chrysler is featured on the cover of Time magazine as man of the year.

  • UFO

    1Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

  • IBM experiment

    Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

  • Cuban governmemt

    The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

  • Polaris missille

    The Polaris missile is test launched.

  • Spacecraft

    Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.