August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

1992:
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.

1972:
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies

1953:
The jail on Devil's Island is closed

1941:
World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad

1642:
Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War