January 10th, 2009

Today in History

2000:
America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.

1989:
Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.

1941:
Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.

1923:
Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.

1920:
League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.