October 11th, 2008

Today in History

2002:
Bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland. See Myyrmanni bombing.

2001:
Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

1984:
Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American women to perform a space walk.

1906:
San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

1809:
Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.