October 11th, 2008

Today in History

2005:
Sevendust releases its fifth album, Next.

2002:
Bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland. See Myyrmanni bombing.

1958:
Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).

1862:
American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.

1811:
Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).