December 5th, 2008

Today in History

1932:
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

1560:
Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.

1776:
At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic fraternity in the United States.

1484:
Pope Innocent VIII writes a Papal Bull that sets the inquisition into full swing and leads to the deaths hundreds of thousands of people accused of being witches

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