December 22nd, 2009

Today in History

2001:
Cc the cat, the first cloned pet, was born.

1984:
Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American youths on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.

1974:
Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.

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

1864:
Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman