December 1st, 2008

Today in History

1981:
A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing 178.

1975:
The long-running soap opera The Edge of Night switches networks to ABC after 19 years on CBS.

1963:
Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India

1958:
Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.

1955:
American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.