November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

1993:
Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

1990:
Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

1979:
In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

1955:
The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.

1903:
Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.