November 30th, 2009

Today in History

1998:
Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

1979:
Rock band Pink Floyd release the mega-selling rock opera The Wall.

1943:
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.

1940:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1864:
The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).