On January 7
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly January 7 — the closest is Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on January 5, 1968.
This week in history (Jan 4 – Jan 10)
On 10 January 1776 the English-born radical Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a roughly fifty-page pamphlet that made a plain-language argument for American independence and against hereditary monarchy.
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalisation in Czechoslovakia that began on 5 January 1968 when the reformist Alexander Dubček became First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Climate agencies including the EU's Copernicus service confirmed 2024 as the warmest year in the instrumental record and the first full calendar year more than 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline — the threshold central to the Paris…