Monday, February 01, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

FEBRUARY 1

1960:McNeil A. Joseph, 17, and three other black college students refuse to leave a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter after being refused service because of their race.

1946: Norway’s Trygve Lie is elected the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
 
1968: South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan is photographed shooting a Viet Cong prisoner in the head.

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