September 7th, 2008

Today in History

1986:
1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.

1963:
The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

1953:
Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

1940:
Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1911:
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.