During the U.S. Civil War on this day in 1862, about 14,000 soldier’s of the Confederate army surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.
The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested on this day in 2002, after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods.
Ray Brent Marsh addresses the court during sentencing proceedings in Walker County Court in LaFayette, Ga.
John Demjanjuk (above) went on trial in Jerusalem on this day in 1987. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
Former prison camp guard John Demjanjuk.
On this day in 1968, America’s first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite (right) went to City Hall and called U.S. Representative Tom Bevill at the local police station for the first 911 call.
On this day in 2005, The NHL announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute.
National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announced the cancellation of the 2004-05 season.
The first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL when a test call was placed by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite, from the Haleyville, Alabama, City Hall, to U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill, at the city’s police station located in the same building.