September 5th, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1948:
Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.

1945:
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

1877:
Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

1774:
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.