January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1999:
Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.

1977:
Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1906:
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

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

1198:
Innocent III becomes Pope.