On this day :
1969 Sesame Street debuts, 1775 Birth of the US Marine Corps, 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper, 1865 Henry Wirz hanged, 1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies, 1997 Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case, 1975 Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior, 1928 Hirohito crowned in Japan, 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior, 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria, 1932 Roy Scheider star of Jaws is born, 1973 SlaughterhouseFive is burned in North Dakota, 1958 Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a 1 hit as a rockandroll idol, 1808 Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands, 2001 Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism, 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami, 1964 McNamara says that US has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam, 1970 No US combat fatalities reported, 1971 Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport, 1928 Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, 1942 Germans take Vichy France,
_1451827273_60x45.jpg "The Mis-Trek")
