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.

1966:
Operation Crimp of the Vietnam War.

1918:
President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1297:
Monaco gains its independence.