November 19th, 2008

Today in History

1961:
Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

1959:
Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1954:
Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

1941:
World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

1881:
A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.