December 4th, 2008

Today in History

1991:
1991 - US airline Pan Am ends operations.

1967:
Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).

1867:
Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange Movement).

1791:
The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

1110:
First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.