So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

January 7th


- Christian Feast Day
- Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar)
- Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
- Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan)
- Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar)
- Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)
- Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

January 7th


- 1999 - The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. He had been impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19.
- 1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 1990 - The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
- 1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1979 - Third Indochina War – Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- 1973 - Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
- 1968 - Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1952 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
- 1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
- 1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1942 - World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
- 1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
- 1927 - The first transatlantic telephone call is made – from New York City to London.
- 1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
- 1920 - The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1835 - HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1782 - The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 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 not discovered by him until January 13.
- 1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1598 - Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

January 7th


- 1991 - Max Morrow, Canadian actor
- 1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
- 1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
- 1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
- 1990 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
- 1989 - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
- 1988 - Haley Bennett, American singer and sctress
- 1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
- 1988 - Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- 1987 - Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
- 1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
- 1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
- 1984 - Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
- 1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1984 - Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player (raised in Puerto Rico)
- 1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1983 - Robert Ri'chard, American actor (Cousin Skeeter)
- 1983 - Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
- 1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
- 1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
- 1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1980 - Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1980 - Zöe Salmon, Northern Irish television presenter
- 1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model & actress
- 1979 - Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian racing driver
- 1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
- 1978 - Emilio Palma, first person born on the Antarctic continent
- 1978 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
- 1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
- 1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
- 1977 - John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
- 1976 - Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1974 - Alenka Bikar, Slovenian athlete
- 1974 - John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
- 1973 - Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- 1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
- 1972 - Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
- 1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
- 1971 - Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
- 1971 - Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1970 - Doug E. Doug, American actor
- 1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
- 1970 - Todd Day, American basketball player
- 1969 - David Yost, American actor
- 1967 - Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
- 1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
- 1967 - Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader
- 1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
- 1966 - Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
- 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
- 1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
- 1963 - Rand Paul, American politician
- 1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
- 1962 - Hallie Todd, American actress
- 1961 - Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
- 1961 - Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1961 - John Thune, American politician, junior senator of South Dakota
- 1960 - David Marciano, American actor
- 1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician
- 1959 - Jon Larsen, Norwegian musician and composer
- 1959 - Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Go's)
- 1958 - Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 1958 - Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure
- 1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- 1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
- 1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1957 - Reena Roy, Indian actress
- 1956 - David Caruso, American actor
- 1956 - Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 - Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1954 - José María Vitier, Cuban music composer and pianist.
- 1953 - Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952 - Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1951 - Helen Worth, British actress
- 1950 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter
- 1950 - Erin Gray, American actress
- 1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1949 - Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter
- 1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
- 1949 - Steven Williams, American actor
- 1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer
- 1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
- 1946 - Jann Wenner, American publisher
- 1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1945 - Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1945 - Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
- 1944 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
- 1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
- 1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
- 1942 - Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
- 1942 - Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
- 1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941 - Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- 1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 - Frederick D. Gregory, NASA astronaut
- 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
- 1938 - Lou Graham, American golfer
- 1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
- 1936 - G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
- 1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1934 - Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
- 1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
- 1933 - Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer
- 1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
- 1929 - Terry Moore, American actress
- 1928 - William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
- 1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
- 1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
- 1924 - Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
- 1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
- 1922 - Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
- 1921 - Chester Kallman, American writer (d. 1975)
- 1917 - Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
- 1916 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
- 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
- 1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
- 1906 - Bobbi Trout, American aviator (d. 2003)
- 1903 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
- 1899 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
- 1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
- 1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
- 1888 - Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky (d. 1982)
- 1876 - William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- 1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1875 - Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
- 1873 - Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
- 1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
- 1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- 1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
- 1860 - Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- 1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
- 1845 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
- 1837 - Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
- 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
- 1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
- 1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
- 1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
- 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
- 1746 - George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
- 1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
- 1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
- 1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
- 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)