TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1802 - The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French Revolutionary War.

1836 - The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, OH. 1838 - Eyre discovers Lake Hindmarsh in South Australia. 1848 - A brutal murder is committed in colonial Brisbane, but the murderer’s legacy eventually leads to the founding of the University of Queensland.

1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.

1900 - The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.

1900 - The Russian army mobilised 250,000 troops for active duty.

1901 - Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the US.

1907 - French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action for the murder of French Dr. Muchamp.

1930 - Brisbane and Sydney are joined by standard-gauge rail link.

1931 - Actor Charlie Chaplin received France’s Legion of Honour decoration.

1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

1942 - The British raided the Nazi submarine base at St Nazaire, France.

1946 - Four-month long strikes at both General Electric and General Motors ended with a wage increase.

1952 - The US Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas. 1955 - Steve McQueen made his network TV debut on “Goodyear Playhouse.” 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.

1993 - In China, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin was appointed President.

1997 - Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalise assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.