Today In History...
In 1530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, onetime advisor to England's King Henry VIII, dies. In 1864 The Colorado militia killed 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in what became known as the "Sand Creek Massacre." In 1877 Edison made the first sound recording: "Mary Had a Little Lamb." In 1887 The U.S. received rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. In 1890 The first Army-Navy football game was played, at West Point, New York. Navy defeats Army, 24-0. In 1897 The first oval-track motorcycle races were run in Surrey, England. In 1929 Navy Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd radios to say that he had made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1934 Chicago beat Detroit in the first nationally broadcast NFL game. In 1945 The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia, and a republic was proclaimed. In 1947 The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. In 1951 First underground atomic explosion occurred at Frenchm