November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

1990:
Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

1984:
Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 45-41. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

1955:
The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.

1943:
The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

1644:
Areopagitica by John Milton is published.