January 8th, 2009

Today in History

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.

1900:
United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1863:
Battle of Springfield of the American Civil War is fought.

1811:
Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.