@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Monday, December 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On this date

In 1912, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro signed an armistice ending the First Balkan War.

In 1939, the first bomb to land on German soil in the Second World War was dropped on Helgoland by a British Wellington bomber.

In 1984, a leak of methyl isocyanate gas at a Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed at least 3,000 people and disabled thousands.

Thought for Today

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." — Joseph Conrad, English novelist (1857-1924).