January 8th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1982:
AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

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.

1900:
United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.