January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1998:
Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka.

1992:
President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister.

1989:
beginning of Japanese Heisei era

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.

1734:
Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.