On this day in history

1327: King Edward II of England is deposed.
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.
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.
1952: French forces in Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of Ba Vi.
1979: Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge are overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
1980: U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation providing $1.5 billion in loans to salvage Chrysler Corporation.
1985: Japan launches its first interplanetary spacecraft, Sakigake, the first deep space probe launched by any nation other than the U.S. or the USSR.
1989: Prince Akihito is sworn in as Emperor of Japan, following the death of his father, Hirohito.
1990: Safety concerns over structural problems force the Leaning Tower of Pisa to be closed to the public.
1993: The Bosnian Army carries out a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
1999: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton opens in the U.S. Senate.

Source: HistoryNet.com