27 March 2007

On this day in history

...Thomas Jefferson was elected to the Continental Congress in 1776.

...President George Washington authorized the creation of the US Navy in 1794.

...Santa Anna's army massacres nearly 400 men under the command of Colonel James Fannin at Goliad in 1836.

...the Germans launched the last of their V-2 rockets in 1945.

...Singin' in the Rain opened in theaters in 1952.

...Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet premier in 1958.

...Mariah Carey was born in 1970.

...Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson of the Black Eyed Peas was born in 1975.

...the FDA approved Viagra in 1998.

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