On this day in 1892 The General Electric Company was organized, in 1919 British troops killed 400 Indians at Amritsar, India, in 1945 during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, in 1952 the first B-52 prototype was tested in the air, in 1956 General Motors announced that the first free piston automobile had been developed, in 1998 Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians, and in 1999 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption. Leonardo da Vinci was born today in 1452, Charles Peale in 171, and Bessie Smith in 1894.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:06:50 +0000
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