BlueBlood
06-25-2006, 08:54 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1876: A force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull wipes out about 260 U.S. cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1906: On the roof of New York City's old Madison Square Garden, a building he designed, leading American architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.
1944: The final strip of George Herriman's innovative Krazy Kat comic strip appears, two months after Herriman's death.
1950: The Korean War begins with the crossing of the 38th parallel into South Korea by North Korean troops.
1973: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his televised testimony before the Senate Watergate committee. His account, corroborated by secret White House tapes, will lead to President Nixon's resignation.
1975: After 470 years of rule by Portugal, the former colony of Portuguese East Africa gains its independence as the nation of Mozambique.
Born on This Day
Aimé Césaire, poet and political leader (1913)
W. V. Quine, philosopher (1908)
Lord Mountbatten, naval officer and viceroy of India (1900)
Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, architect (1852)
Robert Venturi, architect (1925)
Walther Nernst, physical chemist (1864)
This Day in History
1876: A force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull wipes out about 260 U.S. cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1906: On the roof of New York City's old Madison Square Garden, a building he designed, leading American architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.
1944: The final strip of George Herriman's innovative Krazy Kat comic strip appears, two months after Herriman's death.
1950: The Korean War begins with the crossing of the 38th parallel into South Korea by North Korean troops.
1973: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his televised testimony before the Senate Watergate committee. His account, corroborated by secret White House tapes, will lead to President Nixon's resignation.
1975: After 470 years of rule by Portugal, the former colony of Portuguese East Africa gains its independence as the nation of Mozambique.
Born on This Day
Aimé Césaire, poet and political leader (1913)
W. V. Quine, philosopher (1908)
Lord Mountbatten, naval officer and viceroy of India (1900)
Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, architect (1852)
Robert Venturi, architect (1925)
Walther Nernst, physical chemist (1864)