Saturday, April 17, 2010

On this day in history

New Yorker Calendar:
1962: Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

Other choices:
1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1861 Virginia become 8th state to secede
1905 U.S. Supreme Court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
1939 Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F Kennedy
1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
1982 Canada adopts its constitution
1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip

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