TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 7

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.

1985
Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet