Monday, May 9, 2005

Today in History

From Working for Change:

Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:
1432: Charges of witchcraft dismissed against Margery Jourdemain, John Virley, and John Ashwell, in England. They're executed for littering instead.

1933: First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.

1967: Muhammed Ali stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusing military draft.

1974: Congress begins impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon.

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