MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019

Today is Monday, January 7, the seventh day of 2019. There are 358 days left in the year.

1598 — Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I

1608 — Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1618 — Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

1698 — Russian Czar Peter the Great departs the Netherlands to England

1714 — Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill

1761 — Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten

1822 — First printing in Hawaii

1822 — Liberia colonized by Americans

1842 — Gioacchino Rossini’s opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

1868 — Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1910 — Ottawa Senators sweep Galt in two games for the Stanley Cup

1911 — First airplane bombing experiments with explosives in San Francisco