TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2017. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.

1851 - Victorian Governor La Trobe offers a reward of 200 pounds to anyone finding gold within 200 miles of Melbourne. 1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith arrives in Brisbane after completing the first flight across the Pacific Ocean.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon “The Wise Little Hen.” 1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during the Second World War.

1979 - A fire on the Ghost train ride at Sydney’s Luna Park kills six children and one adult. 1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a “free-base” mixture that exploded. He was hospitalised more than two months.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.

2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

2011 - The world’s first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.