January 10th, 2009

Today in History

2000:
America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.

1971:
Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.

1920:
League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.

1863:
The first section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

1806:
Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.