January 8th, 2009

Today in History

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

1935:
A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

1906:
A landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

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

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