December 8th, 2009

Today in History

1991:
First post-Communist Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.

1980:
Mark David Chapman murders former Beatle John Lennon.

1968:
NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.

1907:
King Gustav V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

1869:
Timothy Eaton founds the T. Eaton Co., in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which would later become the Eaton's department store chain.