Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Today in History January 7th

1927  Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.

1953  Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.

1955  Marian Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut.

1979  Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

1989  Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.

1999  The impeachment trial of President William Clinton began in the Senate.

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