January 07
1896
Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
1927
Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.
1953
Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.
1955
Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut.
1979
Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge government.
1989
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito died.
1999
The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.
Birthdays
Millard Fillmore
1800–1874, 13th United States President.
St. Bernadette
saint (1844)
Francis Poulenc
composer and pianist (1899)
Zora Neale Hurston
author (1901)
Charles Addams
cartoonist (1912)
David Caruso
actor (1956)
Katie Couric
broadcast journalist (1957)
Nicolas Cage
actor (1964)