October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1985:
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

1979:
The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.

1960:
U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.

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.

1651:
Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.