A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 7th!
| 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.  |
| 1800 | Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, was born in Summerhill, N.Y. |
| 1807 | Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte’s 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 resumes her reign.
 Empress Dowager |
| 1918 | The Germans move 75,000 troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front. |
| 1927 | Commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London. |
| 1934 | Six thousand pastors in Berlin defy the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced. |
| 1942 | The World War II siege of Bataan began. |
| 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. |
| 1952 | French forces in Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of Ba Vi. |
| 1953 | President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. |
| 1955 | Singer Marian Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, becoming the first black person to perform there as a member. |
| 1959 | The United States recognized Fidel Castro’s new government in Cuba. |
| 1972 | Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the Supreme Court. |
| 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. |
| 1985 | Vietnam seizes the Khmer National Liberation Front headquarters near the Thai border. |
| 1989 | Japanese Emperor Hirohito died at age 87. |
| 1996 | A major blizzard paralyzed the eastern United States, claiming more than 100 lives. |
| 1997 | Newt Gingrich became the first Republican re-elected House speaker in 68 years. |
| 1999 | President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial began in the Senate. |
| 2005 | Actor Brad Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston announced they were separating after four years of marriage.
 Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston |
| 2006 | American journalist Jill Carroll was abducted in Iraq and a translator was killed. (Carroll was released unharmed after 82 days.) |
| 2006 | Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, facing corruption charges, stepped down as House majority leader. |
Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.
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