7th January anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1785
  • 1st aerial crossing of the channel in a balloon
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "The River Thames flooded, drowning fourteen people and severely damaging artworks in the Tate Gallery’s basement."
  • 1979
  • Viet Nam
  • "Vietnamese troops captured the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge government"
  • 1999
  • United States
  • US President Bill Clintons impeachment trial began. He was charged with lying under oath and obstructing the course of justice
• Death
  • 1758
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet ."
  • 1984
  • France
  • "Death of Alfred Kastler, French physicist, won the Nobel Prize for his work on stimulating atoms, which later led to the development of lasers"
  • 1989
  • Japan
  • Death of Emperor Hirohito of Japan