07 January History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
07 January Birthdays
- 1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War hero.
- 1745 - Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor who, with his brother, launched the first successful hot-air balloon.
- 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States.
- 1845 - Louis III, last King of Bavaria.
- 1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist, creator of the Addams Family.