THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1752 - Britain adopts Gregorian calendar 1814 - Francis Scott Key writes America’s national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner

1927 - Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan dies in Nice, France, when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car

1990 - The first ever gene therapy is carried out on a four-year-old girl who had inherited a genetic deficiency

2001 - Ansett, Australia’s second biggest airline, collapses, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and placing 60,000 jobs in jeopardy

2003 - Yetunde Price, a halfsister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, is shot and killed in Compton

2012 - Asylum seekers arrive in Nauru, the first to be dealt with under the Gillard government’s offshore processing scheme

2015 - Malcolm Turnbull announces he is challenging Prime Minister Tony Abbott for leadership