Another Thursday, more interesting dates in history!
This day in:
1870- Manitoba became a province of Canada
1932- The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s kidnapped baby was found
1937- Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
1943- Axis forces in North Africa surrendered
1970- Harry A Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice
2002- Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro’s Cuba
2008- An estimated 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan Provinces in western China and as many as 68,000 people were killed
2012- The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, S. Korea