January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1977:
Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1975:
Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1973:
Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1906:
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1499:
Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany