Today In History
Catch up post
9/29
1789 The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
| 1918 | Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I. | ||
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1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1988The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
2005New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
9/30
1946An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1949The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1954The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1991The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1997France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
2003The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
1988The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
2005New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
And Armitage is STILL free. He was The leaker but the Democrats don't care.
9/30
AP Highlight in History: On Sept. 30, 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed at a meeting in Munich that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. | |
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1946An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1949The Berlin airlift, which delivered 2.3 million tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, came to an end.
1954The U.S. Navy commissioned the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus.
1991The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first freely-elected president.
1997France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
2003The FBI began a criminal investigation into whether White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.
And they STILL cannot find Armitage?
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