Marian Anderson

Sunday Open Thread: January 7th is NY Anti-Democracy Day (Unofficial)**

World History this day

1558 -- France took Calais from England.
1942 -- The start of the siege of the Bataan Peninsula
1959 -- The US recognized Fidel's government in Cuba
1979 -- The Vietnamese drove Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge out of Phnom Penh

US History this day