November 19th, 2008

Today in History

1997:
In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.

1984:
A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

1954:
Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

1916:
Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers.)

1881:
A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.