Today In History...

...Roman Legions loyal to Vespasian defeat the forces of Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum (69 AD)
...Anton van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of the microscope, born (1632)
...Poland is partitioned between Austria, Prussia and Russia (1795)
...Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901)
...Y. A. Tittle born (1926)
..."Black Thursday" Stock Market Crash (1929)
...The Big Bopper born (1930)
...founding of the United Nations (1945)
...President Eisenhower pledges support to South Vietnam (1954)
...I am born in Big Spring, Texas (1967)