August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

2004:
The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2001:
the Trojan room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.

1962:
The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage

1791:
Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue

1780:
James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)