January 7th in History
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1558: The French recaptured Calais, the last English possession on mainland France, marking the end of England’s continental holdings after more than two centuries.
1325: Afonso IV became King of Portugal, beginning a reign that would last until 1357.
1610: Galileo Galilei made his first recorded observation of Jupiter’s four largest moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—though he was unable to distinguish all four until the following night. This discovery was pivotal in the development of modern astronomy.
1790: During the French Revolution, a riot broke out in Versailles as people demanded cheaper bread, reflecting the widespread social unrest of the era.
1904 The Marconi company suggested the use of CQD for a distress signal, a derivation of CQ commonly used by telegraphers and wireless operators to address all stations at once. CQ followed by D meant distress. It lasted just two years before being replaced with SOS.
1927www.beautifulbritain.co.ukA telephone service began operating between London and New York. A three-minute call cost £15. Nevertheless 31 different people made a call on the firstday.
1964: The Beatles recorded for the BBC program Saturday Club, performing Chuck Berry's "Johnnie B. Goode", along with "All My Loving", "Money", "The Hippy Hippy Shake", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Roll Over Beethoven", and "I Wanna' Be Your Man". It was the group's fourth appearance on the show.
2012 Casualty, the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world, was broadcast from Cardiff's Roath Lock studios in the Porth Teigr area of Cardiff Bay
for the first time. For 25 years the fictional Holby City Hospital’s emergency department had been staged in studios in Bristol.
(I was once surrounded by the cast of Casualty when it was filmed next to the cricket ground in Bristol and they came to watch during a filming break)
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