Saturday, November 11, 2006

On This Day In History

-Washington becomes the 42nd State of the Union in 1889.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist and author of Crime and Punishment, born in 1821.
-Armistice which ends World War I signed in 1918.
-Poland proclaimed an independent republic, 1918.
-Veterans Day first celebrated in the United States, 1954

1 comment:

Kyla said...

ooh! ooh! I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time!