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January 7: Christmas (Eastern Christianity); Victory over Genocide Day in Cambodia (1979)

CQD in Morse code

1797 – The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
1904 – The Marconi International Marine Communication Company specified CQD (audio featured) as the distress signal to be used by its operators.
1939 – French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
1979 – The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
2020 – After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

Francis Poulenc (b. 1899)
Melly Goeslaw (b. 1974)
Richard Hamming (d. 1998)
Run Run Shaw (d. 2014)

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January 7

in German and Dutch wikipedia pages the events are subdivided in Politics, War, Religion, Sciences and Technology, Sports, Economics, Disasters.

that subdivision enhances the usability of these pages. I propose the English wikipedia to use subdivisions. JaapB (talk) 08:21, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]