October 14th, 2008

Today in History

1979:
The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.

1971:
1971 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

1966:
The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).

1949:
Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten defendants are sentenced to 5 years in prison each, and the eleventh to 3 years. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions on June 4, 1951.

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