September 8th, 2008

Today in History

2004:
The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

1962:
Newly independent, Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution.

1888:
In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.

1796:
French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.

1636:
A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.