This day in History - January 7

404 Historic Events for January 7
1921 Death Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1921 Birth John Lanigan, tenor
1922 Birth Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
1922 Birth Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1922 Death Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
1923 Birth Charles Russell Woolen, composer
1923 Event Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1924 Birth Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)
1925 Birth Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)
1925 Event Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1927 Event Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
1927 Event Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY and London
1928 Birth William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)
1928 Birth Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)
1929 Death Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1929 Birth Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
1929 Birth Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
1929 Birth Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 Event 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
1929 Event "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1929 Event "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1930 Event Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
1930 Death Rudolf H„pke, historian (Entstehung Holl„nd Wirtschaft), dies at 45
1931 Birth Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)
1932 Death Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60