November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

1985:
Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

1980:
A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

1903:
Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

1644:
Areopagitica by John Milton is published.