October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1985:
U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

1967:
Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

1947:
Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

1863:
Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.

1773:
Revolutionary War: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.