November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

1990:
Punk rock band Bad Religion releases their seventh album, Against the Grain in the United States

1985:
Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

1963:
The first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC.

1903:
Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.

1644:
Areopagitica by John Milton is published.