1558: French nobleman Francis, Duke of Guise, captures Calais, the last English possession in mainland France.
1785: Blanchard and Jeffries make the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, in a hot air balloon.
1979: A Vietnamese invasion overthrows the genocidal regime of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
1785: Blanchard and Jeffries make the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, in a hot air balloon.
1979: A Vietnamese invasion overthrows the genocidal regime of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.