1327 King Edward II of England is deposed.
1558 The French, under the Duke of Guise,
finally take the port of Calais from the English.
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard 
and
American Dr. John Jeffries 
make the first crossing of the English Channel in a
hydrogen balloon.
and
American Dr. John Jeffries make the first crossing of the English Channel in a
hydrogen balloon.
1807 Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte's 
attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe.
attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe.
1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attack
Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre.
1901 New York stock exchange trading
exceeds two million shares for the first time in history.
1902 Imperial Court of China returns to
Peking. The Empress Dowager 
esumes her reign.
esumes her reign.
1918 The Germans move 75,000 troops from
the Eastern Front to the Western Front.
1934 Six thousand pastors in Berlin defy
the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced.
1944 The U.S. Air Force announces the production
of the first jet-fighter, Bell P-59 Airacomet.
1945 U.S. air ace Major Thomas B. McGuire,
Jr. 
is killed in the Pacific.
is killed in the Pacific.
1952 French forces in Indochina launch
Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of
Ba Vi.
1955 Marian Anderson 
becomes the first
African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.
becomes the first
African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1975 Vietnamese troops take Phuoc Binh in
new full-scale offensive.
1979 Pol Pot 
and his Khmer Rouge are
overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
and his Khmer Rouge are
overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter signs
legislation providing $1.5 billion in loans to salvage Chrysler Corporation.
1985 Vietnam seizes the Khmer National
Liberation Front headquarters near the Thai border.
1985 Japan launches its first
interplanetary spacecraft, Sakigake, the first deep space probe launched by any
nation other than the US or the USSR.
1989 Prince Akihito 
is sworn in as Emperor
of Japan, following the death of his father, Hirohito.
is sworn in as Emperor
of Japan, following the death of his father, Hirohito.
1990 Safety concerns over structural
problems force the Leaning Tower of Pisa to be closed to the public.
1993 The Bosnian Army carries out a
surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
1999 The impeachment trial of US President
Bill Clinton 
opens in the US Senate.
opens in the US Senate.
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