January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1975:
Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1953:
René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1734:
Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1499:
Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany