December 6th, 2009

Today in History

1997:
A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67

1989:
The École Polytechnique Massacre: a man kills 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec.

1977:
not recognized by any other country

1933:
U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene

1922:
One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State comes into existence.