December 5th, 2008

Today in History

1974:
The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.

1934:
Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city).

1932:
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

1926:
Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts

1492:
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).