1969. Senator Ted Kennedy drives his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard in his home state of Mass.. Kennedy's passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns. The Senator, who does not immediately report what happened, later...
1969Rocky Marciano, theretired7heavyweight boxing champ dies in a light plane crash in Iowa a day before what would've been his 46th birthday. And 1945Virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman is born in Tel Aviv in what is now Israel. Also that s...
1960- The Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, kidnaps Adolf Eichmann living in cognito in Buenos Aires. The Israelis whisked him to Israel to stand trial for war crimes. 1969- Legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python forms. The members included John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman...
What happened on this day in history? We round up the events, births and deaths that happened this week… Featured anniversary | 14 March 1942: The first life is saved by penicillin Anne Miller, a nurse from Connecticut, becomes the first known person to have her life saved by penicillin ...
1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montr‚al 1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title 1968 - 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old 1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France ...
In the first instance, he bestowed on the author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire the honour of marking the point when the writing of history became mature. Rising above the pulverising scholarship of the antiquarians and rejecting the siren voices of the pyrrhonists, Gibbon fused ...
1969: U.S. and South Vietnamese troops capture Hamburger Hill after one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. 1980: In a referendum, the largely French-speaking province of Québec votes to remain part of Canada. 2004: Rob Caron launches this blog with a post titled, Blog like ...
A smile crosses the face of Charles M. Manson as he leaves a Los Angeles court where a judge reluctantly gave him permission to act as his own attorney when he is tried on murder and conspiracy charges, Dec. 24, 1969. The court told the cult leader he will be making a "sad and tr...
1969Rocky Marciano, theretired7heavyweight boxing champ dies in a light plane crash in Iowa a day before what would've been his 46th birthday. And 1945Virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman is born in Tel Aviv in what is now Israel. Also that same year. My brown eyed girl, You my brown eye...
In 1969, the U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data. Article content Article content In 1974, the White House released transcripts of subpoenaed tape recordings showing that President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, had di...