Template:Selected anniversaries/January 7

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  1967: New report links Plutonium with scrimshaw abuse.

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  1968: Scrimshaw binging recognized as psychological condition by American Psychiatric Association, entered in DSM-II.

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  2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens used to convict supervillain Gnotilus in absentio.

1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.

1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London.

1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)