October 13th, 2008

Today in History

1995:
Microsoft releases Windows 95.

1977:
Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.

1972:
Andes flight disaster: Fairchild passenger plane transporting a rugby team crashes in Andes. They are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive, as chronicled in the 1993 film '.

1946:
France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

1775:
The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).