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The Seventh Day of January

-- On this date in 1785, American physician and scientist, John Jeffries and French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard, made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel in a balloon. The duo ascended from Dover, England and landed in the Forest of Guines, near Calais, France.
-- On this date in 1839, at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, the first usable photographic process was announced: the daguerreotype. An image was produced on a silver coated copper plate sensitized to iodine and developed in a mercury vapor. The image was made more permanent with a solution of sodium chloride, (common table salt).
-- Born on this date in 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, American author and folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston, whose innovative studies in black culture greatly influenced the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.
-- On this date in 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game. The team originated in Chicago, Illinois and was founded by Abe Saperstein. Over the years, some of the more famous Globetrotters included Geese Ausbie, Wilt Chamberlain, Sweet Lou Dunbar, Marques Haynes, Connie Hawkins, Inman Jackson, Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, and Reece "Goose" Tatum, among others. The first female Globetrotter was Lynette Woodard, who joined the squad in 1985.
-- Born on this date in 1941, in Washington, D.C., American NASA astronaut and test pilot, Frederick Drew Gregory. Gregory was the first black man to command a US spacecraft, (the space shuttle Discovery in 1989).
-- On this date in 1968, the Surveyor 7 spacecraft was launched on its voyage to Earth's moon. Surveyor 7 landed near the Tycho crater two days later and returned more than twenty thousand images to Earth. This spacecraft was the last of the series of seven unpiloted probes that the US launched in response to the Soviet Luna series.

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