November 27th, 2009

Today in History

1997:
Second Souhane massacre in Algeria; 25 killed.

1987:
Canadian rock band Cowboy Junkies record their breakthrough album The Trinity Sessions in one night using one microphone at Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto.

1965:
Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

1868:
United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living on reservation land.

1839:
In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.