January 8th, 2009

Today in History

2003:
US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.

1994:
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.

1992:
President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.

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

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.