MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013

Today is Monday, January 7, the seventh day of 2013. There are 358 days left in the year.

1610 ― Galileo discovers first three Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede

1618 ― Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

1789 ― First national (Presidential) election in U.S.

1890 ― W. B. Purvis patents fountain pen

1911 ― First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco

1923 ― Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

1953 ― President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb

1975 ― Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage

1979 ― Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

1989 ― Akihito becomes emperor of Japan