September 7th, 2008

Today in History

2005:
Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.

1996:
In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match, he dies six days later.

1953:
Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

1940:
Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1864:
American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.