December 9th, 2009

Today in History

1990:
Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.

1950:
Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for stealing United States nuclear weapon secrets for the Soviet Union

1946:
Doctors' Trial: The trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity began for medical researchers involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation .

1888:
Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department

1861:
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the U.S. Congress