November 23rd, 2008

Today in History

1971:
The People's Republic of China is given the Taiwan's seat on the United Nations Security Council. (See China and the United Nations)

1943:
The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

1936:
The first edition of Life is published.

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.