December 5th, 2008

Today in History

1945:
Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

1932:
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

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

1831:
Former US President John Quincy Adams takes a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

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