TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017

On this day in history:

1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

1719 - Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

1775 - Edmund Burke presented his 13 articles to the English parliament.

1802 - Matthew Flinders names Kangaroo island in South Australia for the fresh food it provides his crew.

1841 - Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch. 1873 - Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.

1888 - The English Football League was established. 1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.

1897 - Edmund Barton heads a conference to discuss the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth of Australia. 1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea. 1902 - Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.

1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water because of a drought. 1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1907 - Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces. 1910 - In Liberia, a telegraph cable linked Tenerife and Monrovia.

1915 - A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.

1942 - Nine Japanese aircraft bomb the town of Katherine in Australia’s Northern Territory. 1943 - Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium. 1946 - The first U.S. built rocket to leave the earth’s atmosphere reached a height of 50-miles.

1974 - Tasmania records its highest rainfall within a single day.

1943 - The Dutch work week was extended to 54 hours. 1977 - Indira Ghandi resigned as the prime minister of India. 1980 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco.

1981 - The first Mongolian entered space aboard the Russian Soyuz 39.