October 11th, 2008

Today in History

2005:
Sevendust releases its fifth album, Next.

1939:
Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program.

1929:
JC Penney open Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.

1865:
Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

1862:
American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.