November 26th, 2009

Today in History

1986:
The New Yorker publishes Susan Sontag's AIDS short story, "The Way We Live Now"

1977:
Vrillon, representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.

1863:
Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee

1862:
Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.

1805:
Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct