January 8th, 2009

Today in History

2003:
US Airways flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina killing all 21 people aboard.

1994:
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station till March 22, 1995 for a record 437 days in space.

1856:
Borax is discovered (John Veatch).

1746:
Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

1734:
Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.