BILL OF RIGHTS BECOMES LAW:
December 15, 1791
Following ratification by the state of Virginia, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, become the law of the land.
1961 Architect of the Holocaust sentenced to die
In Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler's "final solution of the Jewish question," is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal.
1 comment:
It is obvious that Eichmann was not a student of history.
I think it entirely appropriate that he was condemned on the same day that the Bill of Roghts became law. I wonder if that was pointed out to him.
Poetic justice, perhaps?
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