November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

1960:
The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on CBS radio.

1936:
The first edition of Life is published.

1903:
Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

1863:
Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.