November 20th, 2008

Today in History

2003:
2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.

1998:
A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

1947:
The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.

1917:
1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic.

1820:
An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).