📜 January 7: On This Day in History |  | Straight outta Harlem |  Image: History.com | Each of the following events happened on January 7. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. Known for their ball handling and comedic routines, the Globetrotters would go on to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- B) Italian astronomer Galileo makes the earth-shaking discoveries that four moons revolve around Jupiter, and that a telescope reveals many more stars than are visible to the naked eye.
- C) Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon, becoming the first people ever to cross the English Channel by air.
- D) Marian Anderson becomes the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Director Rudolf Bing wanted Anderson at the Met so badly, he didn’t tell the board he hired her until the curtain went up on opening night, for fear of rejection. Afterwards, she became a permanent member.
Hint: It takes two to tango, and apparently fly a balloon |
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📜 Answers | | B, C, A, D - B) 1610 – Galileo discovers that Jupiter has 4 moons with his telescope. The implications of this discovery—objects orbiting a planet—were part of what pushed Galileo to argue for a sun-centered cosmos.
- C) 1785 – The English Channel is crossed by air for the first time. The balloon is so weighed down that it almost didn’t make it, forcing the two balloonists to throw everything out—even Blanchard’s trousers—to make it to the other side.
- A) 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game. Although known for their fun antics, several NBA stars got their start on the Globetrotters, including Wilt Chamberlain.
- D) 1955 – Marian Anderson becomes the first African American to perform with the Met.
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