January 7th, 2009

Today in History

1959:
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro

1927:
The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.

1924:
George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.

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.

1598:
Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.