THIS DAY IS HISTORY:
1647
The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in
Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.
1703
St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.
1936
The
Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.
1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.
1941
British ships sank the German battleship
Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.
1994
Nobel-prize winning dissident,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
1996
After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the
Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.
1999
Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
Huh...Kind of a slow day....
Many Happy Returns!
