On January 7, armed men killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris

Today is Tuesday, January 7, the seventh day of the year 2025. There are 358 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On January 7, 2015, masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor-in-chief, before fleeing. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)

Also on this date:

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei first observed four of Jupiter’s moons.

In 1955, singer Marian Anderson became the first Black American to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.”

In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.

In 2022, three white men who hunted and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison; A Georgia judge has denied any chance of parole to the father and son who armed themselves and launched a deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood.

In 2023, Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives in a historic 15th post-midnight vote, defeating holdouts from his own ranks after a chaotic week that tested the capacity of the new Republican majority to govern.

Today’s birthdays:

• Musician Kenny Loggins is 77 years old.
• Actor David Caruso is 69 years old.
• Television journalist Katie Couric is 68 years old.
• Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is 64 years old.
• Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is 62 years old.
• Actor Nicolas Cage is 61 years old.
• Actor Jeremy Renner is 54 years old.
• Country singer and musician John Rich is 51 years old.
• Racing driver Lewis Hamilton is 40 years old.
• NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson is 28 years old.
• Actor Marcus Scribner is 25 years old.
• Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of Jay-Z and Beyoncé, is 13 years old.