December 3rd, 2008

Today in History

1982:
A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that would be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

1947:
Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.

1937:
The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, was first published.

1936:
Radio station WQXR is officially founded

1854:
Eureka Stockade: More than twenty goldminers at Ballarat, Australia were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. Claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy.