October 13th, 2008

Today in History

1962:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.

54:
Roman Empire emperor Claudius I dies after being poisoned by his wife Agrippina.

1812:
On the Niagara frontier in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.

1995:
Microsoft releases Windows 95.

1918:
Talaat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I