January 8th, 2009

Today in History

1989:
beginning of Japanese Heisei era

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

1953:
René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1926:
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

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