On this day…

… in 1972, in its Roe vs. Wade decision, the US Supreme Court legalised abortion in the US under certain conditions. Wonder if the judgment will survive Dubya’s second term.

… in 1905, Tsarist police and Cossack troops fired on 150,000 unarmed demonstrators who had assembled to petition the Tsar outside the Winter palace in St. Petersburg. Over a hundred demonstrators were killed and several hundred wounded.