October 15th, 2008

Today in History

1966:
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.

1953:
British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.

1940:
The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.

1932:
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

1815:
Napoleon I of France begins his exile on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.