Birthdays & Historical Events – January 7

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Historical Events on January 7

Events that occurred on January 7 throughout history

1887

Explorer and adventurer Thomas Stevens completes the first

Explorer and adventurer Thomas Stevens completes the first circumnavigation of the world with a bicycle. He departed from Oakland, CA on April 22, 1884. His journey was completed when he arrived in Boston, MA, on August 4, 1884. After wintering in New York, he proceeded across the Atlantic Ocean on the City of Chicago bound for Liverpool, UK. Steven's final leg of his trip returns him to San Francisco aboard the City of Peking on January 7, 1887. Astonishingly, Stevens covered approximately 13,500 miles on two wheels.

1896

Fannie Merrit Farmer self-publishes Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Fannie Merrit Farmer self-publishes Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. The book's name would later be renamed The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Farmer, a graduate of the Boston Cooking School, later became the school's principal. Who's hungry for Fannie Farmer, now?

1927

The Harlem Globetrotters travel to Hinkley, Illinois to

The Harlem Globetrotters travel to Hinkley, Illinois to play their first basketball game. Since then, the Globetrotters have attained icon status in the world of basketball, and they continue to entertain fans worldwide.

2022

Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center

Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center completed the first transplant of a genetically modified pig's heart into a human. The patent, David Bennet, suffered from terminal heart disease and did not qualify for a human-to-human transplant. Receiving a porcine heart was the only option available to him.

Born on January 7

People born on January 7

Nicolas Cage

Charles Addams

Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell

Anna Murray Vail

Terry Moore

William Peter Blatty

Israel Putnam

David Caruso

Albert Bierstadt

Daniel Tyler

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Jann Wenner

Millard Fillmore