Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in Jerusalem by an Israeli court on this day in 1961. He had been
tried on charges for organizing the deportation of Jews to
concentration camps.
A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller (above) disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel during a flight to
Paris.
A US Army-Air Force C-64 Norseman Aircraft similar to the one
carrying Glenn Miller.
On this day in 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution,
known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification
by the state of Virginia.
On this day in 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other
tribe members were killed in Grand River, SD, during an incident
with Indian police working for the U.S. government.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney died in Los Angeles on this day in 1966.
The movie "Gone With the Wind," produced by David O. Selznick
based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered at Loew’s
Grand Theater in Atlanta on this day in 1939. The epic film starred
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
Loew’s Grand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.