Jun 24, 2008 10:17
2004: Federal investigators question President George W. Bush in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2003: President Vladimir Putin arrives in London on the first state visit to Britain by a Russian leader since the 19th century.
1997: the US Air Force releases the Roswell Report, closing the 1947 Roswell Case
1989, 10:11PM: I am born
1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health.
1948: The Soviet Union begins blockade of Berlin
1947: Kenneth Arnold coins the term "flying saucers" when he reports seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington and describes them as "saucers skipping across the water"
1942: Mick Fleetwood, drummer and founder of Fleetwood Mac, is born
1940: George Pataki is born.
1940: France signs an armistice with Italy
1908: Grover Cleveland dies at age 71
1901: Pablo Picasso has his first exhibit in Paris, at the age of 19.
1895: Jack Dempsey, the American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, was born.
1793: the first republican constitution in France is adopted
1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent demands a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but is ejected from that body.
1542: St. John of the Cross is Born
1509: Henry VIII is crowned King of England
1497: the first recorded sighting of a North American by a European
I don't know, I like this kind of thing. I stayed up to watch Paris Je T'aime last night. I'm sleepy and my hair is really curly. Yes, very.