January 9th, 2009

Today in History

1995:
Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.

1894:
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

1878:
Humbert I becomes King of Italy.

1431:
The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.

1806:
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.