Quote of the Day
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Biography of the Day
The Sioux Indian chief Crazy Horse, who died this day in 1877 during a scuffle with soldiers trying to imprison him, was a leader of the Sioux resistance to the invasion of America's northern Great Plains by whites.
This Day in History
2001: Evidence provided for black hole theory - At a scientific conference in Washington, D.C., this day in 2001, scientists described an observation of energy flares that provided strong evidence of the theorized black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
More events on this day
1975: Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald R. Ford.
1972: Palestinian terrorists attacked the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, during the Summer Olympic Games, taking hostage and eventually killing 11 members of the Israeli team.
1882: The first Labor Day parade was held in New York City in honor of the American worker.
1836: Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1774: Caspar David Friedrich, a pioneering early 19th-century German Romantic painter, was born.
1725: Marie Leszczynska of Poland was married to King Louis XV of France.
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