TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018
On this day in history:
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrived in Guam.
1788 - Lieutenant Philip Gidley King establishes the first settlement on Norfolk Island. 1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser. 1901 - An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek “peace with honour.” 1946 - Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognised his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.
1957 - The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. 1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. 1970 - Charles Manson released his album Lies to finance his defense against murder charges. 1975 - Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.
1985 - Yul Brynner played his his 4500th performance in the musical The King and I.
1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsised in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.
1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.
1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property. 1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
1997 - A gunman stole Tete de
Femme, a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.
1997 - Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.