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.

1982:
AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1966:
Operation Crimp of the Vietnam War.

1959:
Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France

1838:
Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).