TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2018

On this day in history:

1793 - Austrian troops defeated the French and recaptured Liege.

1818 - Hamilton Hume and James Meehan set out to find an overland route from Sydney to Jervis Bay.

1837 - The city of Melbourne, Australia, is named.

1854 - Australia’s first telegraph line is opened.

1867 - An abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.

1901 - Germany and Britain began negotiations with hopes of creating an alliance. 1902 - In France, the National Congress of Miners decided to call for a general strike for an 8-hour day.

1907 - In St. Petersburg, Russia, the new Duma opened. 40,000 demonstrators were dispersed by troops.

1910 - The Moroccan envoy signed the 1909 agreement with France.

1912 - The Italians became the first to use dirigibles for military purposes. They used them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli.

1918 - The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.

1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections. 1942 - Japanese bomb the quiet coastal towns of Broome and Wyndham, in Australia’s northwest.

1943 - Germany called fifteenand sixteen-year-olds for military service because of war losses.

1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain Speech.

1953 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.

1969 - Gustav Heinemann was elected West German President.

1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

1993 - Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time. 1997 - North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years for peace talks.