December 22nd, 2009

Today in History

1997:
Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas were massacred by paramilitary forces.

1964:
Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity

1944:
Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Vietnam

1894:
The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.

1851:
The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India.