September 7th, 2008

Today in History

1998:
Google Inc. is founded.

1911:
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1901:
The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

1860:
Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.

1812:
Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.