TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017

On this day in history:

1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire. 1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.

1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.

1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.

1810 - Governor Macquarie opens Australia’s first post office.

1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted. 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a “Type-Writer.”

1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.

1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.

1913 - The first Federal postage stamps in Australia are issued. 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. 1934 - Italy gained the right to colonise Albania after defeating the country.

1951 - Soviet UN delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War. 1952 - The US Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.

1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. 1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.

1985 - A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

2000 - 15 people die in a fire at a Backpacker hostel in Childers, Queensland. 2006 - The world’s oldest known animal in captivity, a 176-year-old tortoise, dies. 2015 - NASA's Mars Odyssey completed its 60,000th orbit around Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit on October 23, 2001.

2016 - The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.