births
January 7, 1935
Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)
Valery Kubasov
Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin.
January 7
January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year.