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