January 8th, 2009

Today in History

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.

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

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1916:
World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

1867:
African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.