On this day 7th January

Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com

Facts

1610 Galileo discovers first three satellites of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb

1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM's head office in New York

1999 Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.

Deaths

312 Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies

1536 Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies at 50

1758 Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71

1891 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79

1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86

1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81

1995 Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83

2015 Stéphane Charbonnier [Charb], French cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, dies in a terrorist attack at 47

2015 Rod Taylor, Australian actor (Time Machine, The Birds), dies at 84

2017 Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), dies at 92

Sport

1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)

1963 The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired

Films and TV

1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV

1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV

2001 27th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

Born on this day

1964 Nicolas Cage, American actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon), born in Long Beach, California

1985 Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver, born in Stevenage, England

A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us

Nikola Tesla

Rod Taylor