Today In History
In 1831: Naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. (Darwin’s discoveries helped to shape his theories on evolution.)
In 1900: Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan.
In 1979: Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan, overthrowing and killing President Hafizullah Amin.