BlueBlood
08-04-2006, 06:37 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1735: A jury finds John Peter Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, not guilty of seditious libel. The case marks the first victory for American freedom of the press.
1809: Prince Metternich, who will dominate European affairs for much of the next four decades, becomes foreign minister of the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1914: Britain enters World War I by declaring war on Germany after Germany refuses to honor the neutrality of Belgium.
1944: In Amsterdam, Nazi officers arrest 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and four other Jews in the annex where they have been hiding for two years. Frank will die in the Belsen concentration camp the next year.
1964: Over a month after their disappearance was reported, the bodies of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, are unearthed in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
1964: U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin report an attack by North Vietnam. The unconfirmed report, along with an earlier encounter, leads Congress to approve U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
Born on This Day
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (1912)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792)
Walter Pater, critic (1839)
Knut Hamsun, novelist (1859)
Roger Clemens, baseball pitcher (1962)
Jeff Gordon, race-car driver (1971)
This Day in History
1735: A jury finds John Peter Zenger, publisher of the New York Weekly Journal, not guilty of seditious libel. The case marks the first victory for American freedom of the press.
1809: Prince Metternich, who will dominate European affairs for much of the next four decades, becomes foreign minister of the Austrian Habsburg empire.
1914: Britain enters World War I by declaring war on Germany after Germany refuses to honor the neutrality of Belgium.
1944: In Amsterdam, Nazi officers arrest 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and four other Jews in the annex where they have been hiding for two years. Frank will die in the Belsen concentration camp the next year.
1964: Over a month after their disappearance was reported, the bodies of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, are unearthed in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
1964: U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin report an attack by North Vietnam. The unconfirmed report, along with an earlier encounter, leads Congress to approve U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
Born on This Day
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (1912)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792)
Walter Pater, critic (1839)
Knut Hamsun, novelist (1859)
Roger Clemens, baseball pitcher (1962)
Jeff Gordon, race-car driver (1971)