All Of Tulsa

Jan 7 2001
Standard U.S. letter postage goes to $.34
Jan 7 1990
Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
Jan 7 1972
Lewis Powell Jr and William Rehnquist are sworn in as the 99th and 100th justices of the Supreme Court
Jan 7 1968
Standard U.S. letter postage goes to $.06
Jan 7 1963
Standard U.S. letter postage goes to $.05
Jan 7 1961
The TV show 'The Avengers' is first released in the UK
Jan 7 1953
President Truman announces that the US has a Hydrogen bomb saying, 'From now on, man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.'
Jan 7 1929
Buck Rogers and Tarzan first appear in comic strips
Jan 7 1927
Commercial transatlantic telephone service begins between New York to London
Jan 7 1926
George Burns and Gracie Allen marry
Jan 7 1789
The first U.S. presidential election is held. Electors were voted on and a month later the electors voted for George Washington
Jan 7 1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
Jan 7 1782
The first commercial bank in the U.S. opens. It is Bank of North America in Philadelphia