January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1999:
Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.

1977:
Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

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.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

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