September 7th, 2008

Today in History

1998:
Google Inc. is founded.

1997:
The first test flight of the F/A-22 Raptor takes place.

1965:
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

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

1812:
Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.