TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

On this day in history: 0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.

1774 - The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce.

1799 - In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred more than 2000 Albanian prisoners.

1849 - The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.

1904 - The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.

1906 - Finland granted women the right to vote.

1918 - Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany.

1925 - The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.

1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.

1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.

1942 - Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.

1954 - The Sydney Morning Herald reports a new craze of flattening pennies under the Royal Train of Queen Elizabeth II.

1968 - The Battle of Saigon came to an end.

1971 - A thousand US planes bombed Cambodia and Laos.

1987 - Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight titleholder when he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, NV.

1989 - Poland accused the Soviet Union of a World War II massacre in Katyn.

1994 - In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to form a union with Romania.

1999 - In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president.

2006 - The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

2007 - The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.