This Day in History: January 7th

Here are ten interesting historical events that took place on January 7th, listed in ascending order:

1. 1558: Calais, the last English possession on mainland France, is captured by the French during the Italian War of 1551–1559.
2. 1610: Astronomer Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time, naming them the Medicean stars.
3. 1785: French aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon, making the first aerial crossing of the English Channel.
4. 1927: The first transatlantic telephone service is established between New York City and London.
5. 1931: Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight, traveling from Australia to New Zealand in 11 hours and 45 minutes.
6. 1953: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces the U.S. has developed the hydrogen bomb.
7. 1979: Vietnamese forces capture the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge regime.
8. 1985: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe launched by a non-Soviet or non-U.S. entity.
9. 1999: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins in the Senate.
10. 2015: Two gunmen attack the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and injuring eleven others in what is considered a terrorist attack.

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