Wednesday, October 14, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 14
1947 : Air Force Capt. Charles Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting the X-1 Glamorous Glennis. The news is not released until a year later.

1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel chooses suicide over execution after he is accused of conspiring to assassinate Hitler.

1998: Eric Rudolph, one of the FBI’s most wanted, is charged with the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing in Atlanta.

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