📜 This Day in History
January 7
1327The Parliament of 1327, which was instrumental in the transfer of the English Crown from King Edward II to his son, Edward III, began at the Palace of Westminster.- 1797The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1939French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.
- 1979The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- 1993The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
- 2020After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.
