October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1981:
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

1964:
American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1865:
The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes signed a treaty with the U.S. at a camp on the Little Arkansas River in Kansas. However, none of the parties to the treaty abided by it.

1863:
Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.

1812:
Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.