December 20th, 2009

Today in History

1995:
An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160

1989:
Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega

1988:
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

1984:
The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines

1917:
Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded