From Riots to Wildfires: The Explosive History of January 7
Fuelled by strong Santa Ana winds, the fires burned everything in their path.
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On this day in history, January 7
1681 The first recorded boxing match – between the Duke of Albemarle’s butler and the duke’s butcher – takes place.
1790 A riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand cheaper bread. The protest gains strength and leads to the French Revolution, heralding the end of the monarch.
1912 Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist, presents his controversial theory of continental drift in Frankfurt.
1915 Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm approves the strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids the bombing of London, fearing that his relatives in the British royal family might be killed.
1945 US Boeing B-29s pound Tokyo, Japan, and Nanking in China, with bombing raids in attempt to force Japan’s surrender.
1958 Moscow announces a reduction in its armed forces by 300 000 men and women.
1967 More than 16 000 US and 14 000 South Vietnamese troops start their biggest attack on the Iron Triangle, during the Vietnam War.
1991 World-champion middle distance runner Caster Semenya is born in Polokwane.
2015 Two gunmen open fire at the offices of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people in revenge for blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed.
2018 It snows in the Sahara desert – as much as 15 inches is reported in north-west Algeria.
2021 Elon Musk becomes the world’s richest man with a net worth of $196 billion, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff, Bezos.
2022 A pig’s heart is transplanted into a man, 53, in Baltimore, Maryland. He lives for another two months, dies of a heart attack.
2025 Extreme Santa Ana winds cause devastating wildfires across Los Angeles, including the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires, causing tens of thousands to evacuate, burning over 16 000 structures and killing 29 people. Some people claim they happened because God had been mocked during The Golden Globes film and TV awards ceremony – a major event in Hollywood’s awards season – others that they were the result of sacrificing safety and the fire department’s budget to the gospel of virtue signalling and woke religion by the mayor and the state governor.
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