January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1975:
Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1973:
Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1958:
14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.

1926:
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

1811:
Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.