January 7

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1610	Galileo Galilei observes three of the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them, and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. Ganymede was not discovered by him until January 13.	Spacehog	Jupiter's Moon	Hogyssey
2.	1894	W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.	The Church	Film	Priest = Aura
3.	1904	The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".	Mogwai	Help Both Ways	Come One Die Young
4.	1920	The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.	Public Image Ltd.	Socialist	Second Edition
5.	1927	The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York City to London.	Lou Reed	New York Telephone Conversation	Transformer
6.	1948	Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.	Andrew Bird	Fiery Crash	Armchair Apocrypha
7.	1952	President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.	The Smashing Pumpkins	Here's to the Atom Bomb	Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
8.	1990	The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.	Planes Mistaken for Stars	Leaning the Room	Knife in the Marathon

(Historical facts about January 7 are from Wikipedia.