Today is Tuesday, January seventh, the seventh day of 2025. There are 358 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On January 7, 2015, masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Mohammed, and systematically killed 12 people, including the editor, before fleeing. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)
Also on this date:
In 1610, the astronomer Galileo Galilei first observed 4 moons of Jupiter.
In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and overthrew the Khmer Rouge government.
In 2022, three white men who stalked and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison; A Georgia judge has denied any likelihood of parole for the daddy and son who armed themselves and launched the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man after spotting him running of their neighborhood.
In 2023, Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a historic fifteenth ballot after midnight, defying holdouts after a chaotic week that tested the brand new GOP majority's ability to manipulate through his own ranks.
Today's birthdays:
- Musician Kenny Loggins is 77.
- Actor David Caruso is 69.
- Television journalist Katie Couric is 68.
- Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is 64.
- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is 62.
- Actor Nicolas Cage is 61.
- Actor Jeremy Renner is 54.
- Country singer and musician John Rich is 51.
- Racing driver Lewis Hamilton is 40.
- NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson is 28.
- Actor Marcus Scribner is 25.
- Jay-Z and Beyoncé's daughter Blue Ivy Carter is 13.
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