December 5th, 2008

Today in History

1974:
The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.

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

1776:
At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic fraternity in the United States.