August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

2001:
the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.

1972:
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1950:
Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis

1846:
The United States annexes New Mexico

1642:
Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War

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