October 6th, 2008

Today in History

2002:
Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.

1998:
Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).

1995:
51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

1921:
International PEN is founded in London.

891:
Formosus becomes Pope.