January 8th, 2009

Today in History

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

1959:
Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France

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

1906:
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1746:
Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.