September 7th, 2008

Today in History

1950:
The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.

1940:
Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1911:
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1864:
American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1818:
Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.