today in history

In 1066, William the Conqueror and his Norman troops landed in England.

In 1791, Jews in France were given full citizenship.

In 1793, the Upper Canada legislature decreed that all slave children born in Canada after Sept. 28 would become free at age 25.

In 1895, French scientist Louis Pasteur, noted for developing the process of pasteurization, died. He was 72.

In 1920, eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring with gamblers to fix the outcome of the 1919 World Series. The players were acquitted at their trial but were banned from organized baseball for the rest of their lives by baseball commissioner Kennesaw Landis. The incident became known as “The Black Sox Scandal.’’

In 1939, during the Second World War, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. On the same day, the two countries also signed a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland.

In 1972, Paul Henderson scored the most famous goal in Canadian hockey history with 34 seconds remaining in the final game of the CanadaSoviet Summit Series in Moscow. The NHL stars tallied three times in the final period to win 6-5 and take the series with a 4-3-1 record. Henderson scored the winning goals in each of the last three games.