TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2017

On this day in history:

1823 - Oxley anchors off Pumicestone Channel to explore western Moreton Bay. 1876 - The Queensland flag is officially adopted.

1945 - The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed.

1947 - The UN General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

1948 - Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley launches the first mass-produced Australian car, the Holden FX. 1963 - A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport. All aboard were killed. The crash was the worst in Canada’s history.

1970 - Recreated goldfields town, Sovereign Hill in Victoria, is officially opened. 1974 - In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective. 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.

1982 - The UN General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. 1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.

1989 - In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party’s 40-year monopoly on power.

1990 - The UN Security Council voted to authorise military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

1996 - A UN court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II. 1998 - Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalising heroin and other narcotics.

2004 - The French government announced plans to build the Louvre II in northern France. The 236,808 square foot museum was the planned home for 500-600 works from the Louvre’s reserves.