October 12th, 2008

Today in History

1998:
U.S. Congress passes Digital Millennium Copyright Act

1968:
Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain

1915:
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

1793:
The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina

1609:
"Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft