November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

1980:
A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

1990:
Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

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

1644:
Areopagitica by John Milton is published.

1499:
Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.