November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

2003:
Berkeley Breathed begins the comic strip Opus.

1980:
A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

1958:
Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.

1869:
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched -- one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.

1644:
Areopagitica by John Milton is published.