October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1981:
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

1958:
The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

1949:
Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.

1865:
The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.

1806:
Battle of Jena-Auerstädt