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.

1969:
After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published.

1957:
Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

1946:
First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.

1776:
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.