January 8th, 2009

Today in History

871:
Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.

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

1838:
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1962:
Harmelen train disaster.

1918:
President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.