Today in History

1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
1746 - Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army.
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1964 - 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1972 - Two giant pandas arrive in US from China
1975 - Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2012 - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
2013 - 37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran
2013 - 16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana