Today in History

2348 BCE		biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
1863		Union ends the siege of Chattanooga with the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
1876		Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
1901		Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
1914		German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans' 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.
1918		Chile and Peru sever relations.
1921		Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.
1923		Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
1930		An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.
1939		Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.
1946		The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
1947		The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy.
1951		A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
1955		The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel.
1963		The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1964		Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
1986		As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North's office.
1987		Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths.
1992		Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993.
2008		Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless.