December 1st, 2008

Today in History

2001:
Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines

1987:
NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.

1944:
Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration.

1918:
1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.

1822:
Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.